El Pardo ha hecho del pueblo un lugar donde la justicia y el respeto no existen. Mercedes, consumida por el alcohol, vive en la amargura de los recuerdos de su vida junto a el. Pero a la llegada de "El Marcado"(Antonio Aguilar), a quien el pueblo ofrece una recompensa por deshacerse de los males que le agobian, todo cambiar.
El Pardo has made the town a place where justice and respect do not exist. Mercedes, consumed by alcohol, lives in the bitterness of the memories of her life with him. But upon the arrival of "El Marcado" (Antonio Aguilar), to whom the town offers a reward for getting rid of the evils that overwhelm them, everything changes.
The Kid is a vicious psychopath given to laughing a lot, an actor manqué who leads a gang of looters and rapists, and is incestuous with his father to boot. The town's resident Mater Dolorosa, madam of the brothel, hires her lover Marcado to kill the Kid, who is of course her son.