If you live in Dominican Republic or Latin America for that matter, you, most likely, have heard the sound of the cameros, those who go around the entire city buying old things. "Hierro Viejo" tells the story of Luis and Nelson, two cameros who have continued their work in the midst of the pandemic, one of them is involved in a crime and will have to deal with the consequences and the karma behind his actions.
After the assassination of a resident of an old condo, an extensive investigation holds a group of seven tenants in a interrogation room, all of them suspects of committing the crime.
A young man of humble origins who studies at a prestigious university thanks to a scholarship falls in love with an upper-middle-class girl. Both are forced to face multiple obstacles and challenges, due to their social environments.
A lonely man who operates a film projector finds his only solace in a woman he sees on a film reel. After the reel is lost in an accident, he sets out to find the woman through the remotest, poorest places of the Dominican Republic.