Arguably, this last issue should have been the most central idea of the film, given the gravity of the issue and the true events the movie refers to. Mexican mothers were coerced into sterilizations in LA during the 1960s and 1970s and took legal action in retaliation.

In MADRES, Diana (Ariana Guerra) and her husband Beto (Tenoch Huerta) are moving from Los Angeles to a small farming community in Central California, where Beto has been hired as a manager. The year is 1977, and Diana, a writer, was just fired from her job for being pregnant.