A por­trait of the Zapotec women of Juchitán in Oaxaca, Mexico. The films shows them in all their bright­ly coloured, opin­ion­at­ed glory as they run their own busi­ness­es, embroi­der their sig­na­ture fiery blos­soms on cloth­ing, and com­ment with angry humour on arti­cles in the for­eign press that flip­pant­ly and inac­cu­rate­ly depict them as a promis­cu­ous matri­archy. The people inter­viewed in this film share a strong work ethic and fierce inde­pen­dent streak rooted in Zapotec cul­ture. These qual­i­ties have result­ed not only in pow­er­ful women, but also in the region’s pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics, man­i­fest­ed in their unusu­al tol­er­ance of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty. Their lives may be hard and main­tain­ing Zapotec cul­ture and lan­guage may be an on-going battle, but it’s plain that not one of these indi­vid­u­als – man, woman, young, old, gay or straight would will­ing­ly change places with anyone in the first world.