As Ricardo waits in line at the Metropolitan bank, Roberto gets in and puts a gun to the security guard's temple. 
 
Four hostages, six Police units and a growing crowd outside will live through a veritable nightmare whose unfolding will keep the whole town of Crownsville in a state of uncertainty and shock.
 
As we delve into their lives, we get to understand the circumstances that brought them here, on the path of so-called American dream... or the discovery that such a dream is just a myth.