Dino González has the appearance of an old-time rocker. He lives in the Chapinero area and works as a hairdresser. As fate would have it, he becomes entangled with a police sergeant who initially sees him as a delinquent and wants to send him to prison, but as time goes by she begins to change her conception of Dino.

In the vicious slums of Colombia, where prosperity is dictated by brutality, a conflicted kid seeks membership in a brutal gang, with the hope of one day having the power to determine his own destiny.