El Bonaerense

Mendoza Enrique Orlando, aka Zapa, is a thirty-two-year-old locksmith. Still single and hopeless, he lives with his mother, his sister and her kid in a small village in Argentina, where time passes by slowly and business is usually slow. Yet, one day, a call from his boss Polaco to open a safe located in an office downtown will finally give Zapa’s idle hands something to do. Unfortunately, the next thing he knows, an inspector of the Buenos Aires Police handcuffs him and takes him to the precinct facing charges of theft with Polaco disappeared. Framed and struck with bad luck, Zapa will see his miserable life change when his uncle and former policeman Ismael offers to bail him out of prison. In addition, his letter of recommendation will open a position in the Police Academy, where Zapa as a Police applicant training to become a Corporal will begin for once in his life to have dreams of a better life. During the days of his training and finding a place to live, Zapa will experience an irregular love affair while gradually adapting to his new reality, taking charge of his life as he works his way up in the West Buenos Aires Police Force.