The Judge's Shadow

For Alonso Quijano, professor of literature and expert in Don Quixote of la Mancha, the thin line between sanity and madness snaps one day and from that day forward, his accomplice, veterinary assistant Santos Carrasco, travels through the Professor's past to discover that his madness is but an escape from pain and into the definitive refuge found in fantasy.

In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with an inquisitive journalist Hipólito Mosquera while trying to solve the mysterious case. Nobody knows who the girl is, or who put her in the trunk. The things turn bad when Mosquera publish the news in the local newspaper. With the help of a bartender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?

When Georgina dies, her husband Alcides tries to give her a dignified funeral, which is quite difficult, because they have no money and are living in the poorest district of Bogotá.

Angela Rojas, a police officer trapped by debt and harassed by Ferrer, her corrupt superior, finds an unexpected ally in patrolman Daniel Diaz. Faced with Ferrer’s abuses, Angela and Daniel are plunged into a dangerous revenge that forces them to commit a crime from which they cannot escape. As they struggle to hide the truth, the complicity between Angela and Daniel reopens wounds from the past, confronting them with their own shadows and decisions that will change their destinies forever.