This film tells the true story of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek), focusing on her rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), and their place in the Mexican society. In addition to being a great artist, Frida Kahlo was also a communist, struggling with an abusive husband, a life of wracking pain following a trolley accident, the amputation of a leg, and finally, drug and alcohol abuse that killed her at age 47.