A group of students go to the jungle to get medicinal plants for their experiments.

Juan, a young man convicted of terrorism, is given amnesty from a Lima prison; he boards a bus to return home and, in his mind's eye, recalls events in his village near Huaraz when he was 10 or 12. His father is long dead, his mother lives with Fermin, secretly a sympathizer with the Communist guerrillas in the hills. Town leaders are assassinated at night. When Juan discovers Fermin's secret, Juan is spirited away to the guerrillas to learn Marxist slogans and how to fight. When the band decides to attack the town to avenge the death of a comrade, Juan must choose.

Eduardo is 12 years old when he realizes that he is not like the other children in his town. The macho family structure and the physical brutality with which his older brothers fight the first signs of his transsexuality, leave the boy no other way out than to flee his home and his town. Not even the indifference of the city serves as protection. Prostitution exposes him even more to a society that does not know how to respond to what it does not understand, if not with mistreatment and aggression.

X arrives in Lima to rescue Karla, who is now forced into prostitution on the streets of downtown Lima by Beto, with whom she has a child. Upon arriving in downtown Lima, X settles in an old neighborhood, learning to live among the lower classes and survive in the underworld of Lima's nightlife. Miguel Eduardo Sandoval Ramírez, "Chino Miky," is a marginalized young man from Lima who, fed up with his precarious economic situation, decides to work as a hitman for a drug trafficker known as El Colombiano.