Sevilla, Andalucía (southern Spain). The neighborhood of Las 3.000 Viviendas (The 3,000 Homes or "The 3,000" for short) is a ruthless, cruel place where police, law and order have no power. In this underworld of drug and crime, Juan Santos is a con man with supervised freedom who steps out from jail for one day to celebrate with his wife Triana the First Communion of their only daughter Estrella. But during the celebration,, his younger brother Chico and Uncle Andrés appear as uninvited guests to offer Juan a business to take drugs back into the jail. Fearing to lose his prison privileges, Juan refuses, then when the three head back home, another car bangs into theirs, killing Estrella. At the same time, veteran cop Manuel Santacana and younger partner Eli arrive at a murder scene to investigate the killing of four Romanian drug traffickers, finding in it the cops Barroso and his new partner rookie Nando, Manuel's son, being notified about the car crash. Discovering that the car that killed Estrella is the ...