It focuses on the last ten years of life of the hero, creator of the Argentine flag. In 1810, Manuel Belgrano believes that it is possible to replace the royal authority - that of Fernando VII prisoner of the Napoleonic troops - with the community of virtuous men who, identified with the Homeland, fluently interpret the People.
A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city
