Seis días en la oscuridad

On a dark Mexican roadside, Claudio calls his friends and tells them he needs to meet them. Claudio tells them he is being extorted by two policemen after running someone over. Two corrupt cops demand 200,000 pesos to cover up the manslaughter charge for the accident. Vampiro thinks the only way Claudio can get the money quickly, is to stage his own kidnapping and get Claudio's rich father to pay. The execute the plan and his father pays the ransom; leaving the money in the garbage basket of a local nightclub. Later on, Claudio asks his friends to leave him on the highway to pay off the corrupt cops. The next morning when Vampiro arrives at university he's called to the principal's office where two police officers are waiting together with Ximena, (Claudio’s girlfriend) and Marsolo. After the police inform them that Claudio has been kidnapped, the pair lie and claim to know nothing.

The police officers set up in Emilio Hadaf's house (the father of Claudio) and wait for the kidnappers to call for a new ransom. Emilo tells the Police he does not trust Vampiro. The police then interrogate Vampiro, who tells them that Claudio was in trouble with a bookie and had a gambling problem. The police go to the bookie Salmun, who tells them that Claudio was supposed to meet his partner Isaias Jennings to pay him 200,000 pesos he owes them the night he was kidnapped.

Ximena sits in her room watching old videos of Claudio and his friends. A friend knocks on her door and tells her that Claudio was not an angel and reveals to her that he once had a serious problem with the psychology teacher. The next day, Ximena asks the teacher to tell him what happened between him and Claudio, the teacher tells her that Claudio stole his car and sold it in pieces in response for having failed in a mid-term. The teacher accuses Claudio of playing with everybody and having not been kidnapped at all. While at Hadaf's house the kidnapper contacts with Agent Mondragon and begins a negotiation with him. The voice over the telephone claims 2 million pesos as a ransom but the agent tells him that they are not in the position to pay such amount of money without a guarantee that Claudio is alive. Claudio is sitting on a chair in a basement, tied and blindfolded whilst a man watches.

The police search the area where Claudio was seen last and they find the body of Isais Jenning; lying in the grass with a gunshot in his back. Hadaf agrees to pay the ransom, a mysterious man picks up the money in the reservoir where Hadaf left it. Claudio sits in the dark basement while Marsolo waits sitting in front of him. Vampiro arrives with the money, but Marsolo decides to go even further.

• Ludwika Paleta
• Gabriel Soriano
• Hugo Stiglitz

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