Based on the real life incidents of young Peruvian criminal Fernando de Romaña "Caligula", who ran a ring of blackmail, rape, and drugs in Lima during the early 1990s, before being shot to death.

Lima, Peru, 1991. After years of fruitless efforts, a group of police officers finally find a lead on the whereabouts of Abimael Guzmán, the bloodthirsty leader of the communist terrorist gang Shining Path.