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Manolo is a private detective specializing in adultery cases and working in a beach-and-tourist ghetto of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He appears to live tortured by the murder of his twin-brother Frank --which event took place just a few years before and for which he was formally accused. Then, following his motto of "betrayal is my business", Manolo spies on and records the affair of past friends Migdalia and Carlos --a case he scores by calling Migdalia's Mother and getting her to hire him-- while, in a parallel tangent, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the events that culminated in Frank's murder.

Legendary singer Daniel Santos lives in Ocala, Florida, and decides to embark on one more adventure: a tour of South America where he was known as El Jefe (The Chief), and where he expects to be again applauded and acclaimed.

A soap-opera star from the provinces reaches the big city with dreams of success. Partly through sincerity and partly prompted by an uneasy conscience, he wants to revolutionize the traditional photo-novel by linking it to social and political reality, to "bring social conscience to the masses" by utilizing this traditionally manipulative and alienating mass medium. The film narrates, in a tragicomic tone, the itinerary followed by Gualberto Rodriguez in his efforts to produce his 'revolutionary' photo-novel: the story of a peasant who migrates to the city, becomes a blue-collar worker, tries to establish a union, and falls in love with the factory owner's daughter. The 'revolutionary' ends up being used and manipulated, and his project fails completely.