The stories of a Panamanian officer who feels betrayed by his superiors, of a young man from the neighborhood trying to prevent his friends from going out to fight, of a fisherman going through a thousand adventures trying to bury his compadre, of an imprisoned American businessman for conspiring as a CIA agent against the dictatorship and an alcoholic prostitute who cannot escape her past ... all in the middle of the Christmas preparations, just as the US invasion of Panama begins.
Before the events of "Historic Parking 1: The Separation of Panama from Colombia" set in 1903, there was an attempt to build a French Canal in 1881, which went through tragedy, bankruptcy and international political intrigue that impacted worldwide and lit the spark that eventually exploded into the events of the Independence of Panama from Colombia.