After years of absence, Moisés returns to his family home in the southern Nevada desert for his sister’s wake. His attempts to reconcile with his twin brother, Noé, are complicated by the presence of a Canopy that shades the desert from rising temperatures, an unexplained supernatural force, and his mother’s unwavering devotion to God, which may be driving her toward madness. Madre de Dios begins as a Mexican-American family drama that unexpectedly unravels into a genre-bending biblical myth about good vs. evil, redemption, and how to survive in a world that’s not only dying, but trying take you with it.