The political leader Alberto Carnevali, secretly returns to his country to plot against the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. The Intense subversive struggle brings the torture of many of his comrades.
Commissioner Leon (Miguel Angel Landa) investigates the murder of a woman in a population near the capital. The woman was raped before death and the case is complicated when his brother becomes the prime suspect, since it is a priest (Eduardo Serrano). Because of the implications that inquiries might have, Leon is pressured to keep the event as a "crab" (Cangrejo, or a unsolvable case), but he decides to comply with the law.
La película cuenta la historia de Ramón Antonio Brizuela, quien desde su infancia tiene que lidiar con la violencia desenfrenada y las drogas, el sexo y el robo de una barriada de Caracas. A partir de la delincuencia, Ramón pasa a serias actividades de pandillas y robos. Crece hasta convertirse en un joven duro y seguro de sí mismo que está endurecido por la violencia. Sus opiniones cambian cuando el hermano de su prometida es asesinado en un robo.
1964, in a Latin American country, a journalist is head of an armed liberation movement that decides to initiate radical actions. His second in command, a farmer, and the other members of the group will kidnap a north american colonel stationed in Venezuela to force his government to suspend the execution of the vietnamese Nguyen Van Troi, accused of trying to assassinate the American Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara.
