Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.—David Stevens

In the fictitious island of Ojeda, people live in a dictatorship and the island is a penal colony with ordinary and political prisoners together. When the Governor Mariano Vargas is murdered by a sniper, his idealistic secretary Ramón Vázquez is assigned director of security in charge of the prison. Vázquez is in love with the widow Inés Rojas and they have a love affair. But when the new governor, Alejandro Gual Miguel, arrives in the island, he wants Inés to be his lover. Further, he forces the killer to sign a false confession telling that Vázquez is the responsible for the attempt against the previous governor, and he blackmails Inés. But Inés is a female fatale that knows the political games and manipulations.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil