Rodrigo Quintero is a businessman from the city of Pereira, Colombia; who in the year 1989, due to certain past mistakes, ends up fleeing his country, being imprisoned in the National Prison of Panama; a country governed at that time by the dictatorship of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. Sergeant Lino, director of the prison, protected by the corrupt military government, begins to extort him with the threat of being extradited to the United States of America; in the end Rodrigo is pushed to his physical and rational limits in the midst of his eagerness to escape and find his freedom.