A fairy-tale like fable of a young man fighting to save his dying mother's estate from his parasitic brothers, Mexican Bus Ride makes clear Buñuel's love of Mexico with an idealized vision of rural Mexico announced in the gorgeous opening scene of newlyweds sailing out across a moonlit lake. The young man's eponymous journey to the city to notarize his mother's will gives way to a picaresque road movie with a colorful cross section of Mexican society assembled on board the ramshackle bus, an affectionate homage to Buñuel's adapted homeland that pokes gentle fun at certain national stereotypes – the self-aggrandizing politician, the oversexed vixen, the lazy driver.