Four young friends are obsessed with cinema: watching it, tasting it and, above all, making it. However, financial difficulties repeatedly truncate their great illusion. Desperate, they decide to make a cinematographic plot come true: to rob a bank to finance their film.

Bogotá, 1980. During the government of President Turbay. An urban cell of the M-19 invades the Embassy of the Dominican Republic, taking 14 ambassadors as hostages. They demand that they be exchanged for political prisoners. The film focuses on the events that took place during those two months of captivity.