Vicente Quintero

At the end of the 80's, near the Colombian-Venezuelan border, two men survived the brutality of a shooting in which 14 of their mates were killed. They claimed to be mere fishermen, but the Venezuelan army accused them to be guerrilla fighters, intimidating them in every possible way and even attempting to remove them from the cell where they were guarded by a policeman.

Andrés y su hijo Pedro, de 12 años, viven en una vecindad marginal de Caracas aunque apenas se ven en su día a día. Mientras Andrés utiliza su tiempo con sus trabajos y trapicheos, Pedro pasa el tiempo en las calles jugando con sus amigos y aprendiendo del violento lugar que le rodea.