Felipe, a young lazy and insensitive stock trader, begins to see subtitles of the people he talks to: the subtext of what they really mean. Sara, his best friend, a young translator, is the only one whose words he cannot see subtitled, perhaps because she truly understands him and speaks to him with transparency. To stop seeing the subtitles, Felipe must learn to truly listen to the language of others.

The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.