A correspondent in a media outlet aligned with Latin American dictatorships writes a report that provokes the kidnapping of an exiled doctor. As he writes the chronicles of the event for its cover-up, he is haunted by his own ghosts, so he moves to the catacombs where intelligence operates.
Set in the late ‘90s, in the height of the privatizations and the increase in poverty, Postman closely follows Hernán, a young man full of illusions that gets a job at the Central Post Office. There, a colleague teaches him the codes of the trade, but the harsh reality will force him to break them.