As a member of the Guardia, Tejada is charged with suppressing the last resistance of "Red" Madrid. When he finds Gonzalo's lover Viviana kneeling over the body of a murdered colleague, he assumes she is the killer, and shoots her out of hand. But a strange clue by his comrade's body makes him investigate further, and he soon suspects that he has made a terrible mistake.
When Gonzalo returns from the hospital, convalescent, he discovers that
his beloved Viviana is dead. Knowing that he himself is a wanted
man because of his role in the defense of Madrid, he decides to spend the
time remaining to him searching for her murderer, and trying to avenge
her death. His search for Tejada sets the two men on a collision
course that will make one lose everything he loves, and the other question
everything he believes in.
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