A young balladeer raised in the United States returns to Colombia to continue her career. Her plans do not align with her mother's, a famous singer of tropical music, and their clash is inevitable. The girl flees her home and frequents the spaces of musicians and artists with revolutionary tendencies.

Rosa is a country girl who has managed to escape from a paramilitary massacre in which her whole family was brutally murdered. Hernando is a man in his forties who is determined to find his aunt Graciela, the only living relative whose testimony will allow him to inherit a substantial amount of money. On the contrary Alejandra, Hernando's wife, thinks that no money should justify the risk of putting themselves in the midts of a 'red zone'. Blinded by his ambition, Hernando convinces his wife to keep on with their money quest. Both the couple and the girl end up being captured by members of a local guerrilla. Finally, the gruesome Colombian conflict will decide their destinies in a totally unexpected way.