An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers’ fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country’s tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.

After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man’s father a bag of “magic dust.”