The rural/urban axis is central to Mexican film, echoing massive internal migrations and the transformation of a primarily agricultural economy to an industrial one. The peasant-instigated Revolution had ironically brought about processes of change that made rural life an anachronism, and millions relocated to metropolitan centers, particularly to that dystopian megalopolis of 20 million, Mexico City. Far from the heroic nationalist fantasy of charros and idyllic landscapes, the Mexico envisioned by the directors in this program is one of cinder-block constructions and industrial waste.