Vibrant and colorful film of midcentury Mexico, including Acapulco and Mexico City. The film follows the journey of people on a vacation and shows a good mix of tourists and locals.

Pans of a town on the shore of an ocean. Cars and people move through the streets. A barefoot family with baskets of chili peppers walk by. Shot of an old church. An old map shows the “Bahia de Acapulco” (1:45). A boy points to the map. Shots of a white villa on a hill. A car approaches. People get out and climb the steps to the villa while people carry their suitcases. They walk around the pool with grass hats and flowers behind their ears. A man rubs oil on a woman’s back. The man jumps off the diving board. A boy’s finger points to the map again. A sign says “Club Sirrocco” above a roof of dry palm fronds (3:43). Views of the beach and ocean. A couple in white walk along the shore. Close up of a woman and a young man smiling in the sand. Three people run into the ocean to swim. Close ups of teenage boys smiling. Shots of a villa on hill. Pan of the bay. People play golf on a small course. Shots of the bay and a hotel. People throw fishing lines into the bay, including children. A boy dives into the water. Boats float in the bay. People on the boats drop anchors and tie knots. A photographer uses a medium format camera on a tripod with a curtain to take a photo of two men posing with two large sword fishes that they caught on their fishing trip (7:55). A boy’s hand points to a map. A hand brushes the sand off of a sign. People lay out on the beach while a local man sells colorful blankets. A girl and a baby play in the sand. A man wearing a grass hat carries a board of sunglasses and more hats to sell (9:19). A boy’s finger points to a new place on the map. Shots of the ocean and a rocky shore. A man squats in a row boat. Two men climb over the rocks with sacks. Two men climb into a small row boat from the rocks. Shot of a long staircase that leads from the hotel to a large platform above the water. A man climbs over the wall of the platform and on to the rocks. He does a one-handed dive into the ocean and climbs out. He climbs up the steep rocky cliff and waves. He dives back into the water from a very high height (3:18). People board a plane. Ariel shots from the plane window. A sign lights up in the night that says “ELGIN.” More night shots of neon sign such as “SUMADORAS VICTOR” “GOODRICH” and “JENA” (14:40). People stroll by small stone buildings. A young man holds a pair of bull horns. Him and another man with a cape act out a bull fight for children. Close ups of the men’s faces. The children take turns with the horns and the cape. A boy stands by a wall of souvenirs such as capes, swords and horns. Shots of a statue of Manuel Rodriguez with a muscular bull in Mexico City, he was Spanish matador (17:28). Men show off horses with ribbons braided in their manes. Quick shot of the inside of a small church with candles. Horses and a procession of matadors enter the bullring. A bull charges a matador. The bull charges a horse. The matadors stab the bull with banderillas. Close ups of the bloody bull as it continues to charge the cape (24:00). Men play guitars in a garden. Shots of the sunset over tree tops. Ariel view from a plane. End credit reads “A Presentation of Pictureloque at Waukesha Wisconsin.”