Sargento Sebastião está em busca de vingar a morte de seu irmão, um caminhoneiro assassinado brutalmente. Ainda abalado, ele está disposto a tudo para fazer justiça, nem que seja com as próprias mãos. Em sua jornada, porém, dois policiais da cidade acabam sendo confundidos com os suspeitos, se tornando o alvo principal de Sebastião e causando um rebuliço na região.

The story of William da Silva Lima, the last survivor of the group that founded the Comando Vermelho at the end of the 1970s. It shows him living together with the political prisoners incurred under the same National Security Law and his leadership in the Ilha Grande Prison creating a type of unheard of conduct and solidarity in the Brazilian prisons. The film goes on to tell of the group's actions on the streets of Rio de Janeiro during the beginning of the 80s when they irritated the police with their daring robberies, as well as portraying the surprising love story between William and Tereza. The narrative weaves its way between the intimate conflict and the spectacular assaults and escapes.