In the hard and convulsive times of the Spain of 1921, An bal Uriarte (Luis Tosar) is a veteran soldier of the Morocco War reconverted as cop who is sent by his superior from Spain's capital Madrid to Barcelona (Catalonia, north-east to Spain) in order to locate an important amount of military weaponry from a train, stolen apparently by revolutionary anarchists. To his arrival to the city Uriarte meets Inspector Rediú, a corrupt officer together other cops as the violent T sico and young Beltrn (Fredi Leis), and El Barón (Manolo Solo), owner of the famous cabaret Ed n where he exploits to his dancers as Lola, filming in addition adult movies implying minors and lesbian women only for the high society's eyes. At the same time Salvador Ortiz (Paco Tous) is the leader of a peaceful riot in an important company of the city, in the fight by the workers' rights, and Salvador's daughter and telephone operator Sara leads her own revolution to defend women's rights. Learning quickly to move in a sea of conspirators, corrupts and traitors, Uriarte makes a deal with El Barón outside Rediú to work for him as informer, and little time later he saves Salvador to die during a police assault in the factory property of Garc a Serrano, a rich businessman who is contacted by El Barón hoping Serrano uses his influences to be admitted in El Liceo, the most important club of the city reserved for the richest and privileged. Therefore, the situation worsen after León, a young worker determined to take arms and lead a bloody revolution opposite to the Salvador's peaceful ways, and T sico's suspects about the own Uriarte believing him as a danger for Rediú's illegal business.
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