El coronel Parrales, amigo cercano del dictador, muere a manos de un idiota. El señor Presidente y sus más cercanos colaboradores deciden convertir este hecho fortuito en un suceso político, e imputarles el crimen a sus adversarios.
Basado en la novela homónima del escritor guatemalteco Miguel Angel Asturias.
Colonel Parrales, a close friend of the dictator, is killed by an idiot. The President and his closest collaborators decided to make a political event out of this casualty. They attribute the crime to his opponents.It is based on the novel by the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias.