Lo que en principio pretendía ser un simple atraco a un tren, se convirtió, por un fallo del plan, en una auténtica carnicería.
Madrid, 1924. A ne'er-do-well in his 30s, perpetual disappointment to his aging military father, hatches a plan to rob the mail train to Andalusia. He intends the hit to be bloodless, but complications arise soon.