Based on the original story by Angela Carter this animated film is a retelling of a traditional fairytale which shows the lengths a mother will go to in order to help her daughter achieve a powerful position in the world, even if it meant coming back from the dead.
Detective Betty Silver is called upon by the local police force to bail out her teenage daughter, who's been picked up for shoplifting. Once there she unravels a shoplifting syndicate run by the blind guitar shop owner and his evil sidekick Maggie Jones.
In the heat of the Mexican desert Juan and his pigs come up against a series of puzzles set up for them by the creatures of the wild. Magic, madness and death all mixed up in a surrealist fairytale for modern times.