Nicolás is angry. Once again they broke into his house and took his bike away. He could swear to have seen a suspicious man hanging around his block that day. So, the city half destroyed by an earthquake and the curfew imposed by the military government do not matter, he goes with his mother to the Court to identify the thief. But he sees more than he would want and, after discovering the threads that join him to that evil place, he is not certain about the meaning of State of Catastrophe, but he thinks he has a lead.