Fever Mounts at El Pao

In the fictitious island of Ojeda, people live in a dictatorship and the island is a penal colony with ordinary and political prisoners together. When the Governor Mariano Vargas is murdered by a sniper, his idealistic secretary Ramon Vazquez is assigned director of security in charge of the prison. Vazquez is in love with the widow Ines Rojas and they have a love affair. But when the new governor, Alejandro Gual Miguel, arrives in the island, he wants Ines to be his lover. Further, he forces the killer to sign a false confession telling that Vazquez is the responsible for the attempt against the previous governor, and he blackmails Ines. But Ines is a female fatale that knows the political games and manipulations.