大統領の友人がクルーザーの中で一家皆殺しにされる。CIA情報担当副長官ジャック・ライアンは、被害者が麻薬組織の金の洗濯係だったことを突き止めた。大統領は密かに組織への攻撃を補佐官に命令する。

CIA作戦担当副長官は密かに特殊部隊をコロンビアに送り込む。麻薬王の情報係コルテズはボスの地位を乗っ取るため補佐官に取引を持ちかけ、攻撃の中止を約束させる。

それを知ったライアンは見殺しにされようとしている隊員たちを救うために現地に向かうが、全ては彼のせいだと聞かされているCIA工作員クラークが殺害命令を受けて待ち構えていた。

In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.

A miserable Argentine troupe of actors, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and a girl embark on a theatre tour to some country, probably in Latin America.

Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly for shotgun wounds, while in the streets he falls in love with a stall-holder who cares for some of the children involved in drug trafficking and criminal violence. Alienating his colleagues and his host family while befriending the kids, he soon finds himself trapped in the center of the violent conflict between the gangs and has to come to a decision.

A young boy is forced by his father to kill a horse. As night falls, in shock, the lights flicker and the television displays disturbing images, the boy is drawn to a mysterious light. In a supernatural encounter, his reality fades away.