Overview
It begins with the tragedy of Armero, during the course investigates the murder of a beautiful woman and on his way some people die in the end a killing and a cemetery. Emerson Roque Fierro, former policeman and private investigator shadowing, investigates the murder of "Golondrina", a beautiful young woman, occurred in a seedy hotel in downtown Bogota. Without knowing who it is, begins to understand their relationships with a motley gallery of men: a corrupt politician, connected to drug trafficking and paramilitary groups, a bullfighter cunning and good for nothing, a boxer fallen on hard times with a force so stupid as rare Lotero intellect and an insightful blind. And in the midst of this, the dark threads entangling power to everyone, and especially the poor Fierro.
Director and cast
- Luis Ospina Director
- Fernando Solórzano as Emerson Roque Fierro, the detective
- Flora Martínez as Golondrina / Pilar, the dead woman
- Robinson Díaz as Jacinto, the transvestite
- Constanza Duque as Irene de Domingo, the mysterious woman
- César Mora as Magician, the blind man
- Álvaro Rodríguez as John Jairo Estupiñán, the police officer
- Alvaro Ruíz as Medardo Ariza, the politician
- Edgardo Román as Óscar 'Hammer' López, the boxer
- Juan Pablo Franco as José Luis Domingo, the bullfighter
- César Badillo as Hugo Mora Sastoque, the taxi driver
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