When a last-minute chance to host the 1986 World Cup appears, a cunning Mexican bureaucrat, armed with nothing but guts and audacity, cons his way through FIFA to beat the United States, but in a country of power games, every victory has a price.

• Phototaxia Pictures
• Gaumont
• Diego Luna
• Karla Souza
• Daniel Giménez Cacho
• Álvaro Guerrero
• Memo Villegas
• Davor Tomić
• Cândido Damm
• Roberto Martinez