He started to write it on a trip to Los Angeles trying to get in touch with Roger Corman in order to sell to the famous Hollywood director four of his play scripts, but he was not welcomed.
Our introduction starts in the privileged north, with its Sixth Avenue ("la Sexta"), Parque Versalles, and its magical places, continuing to the ghetto in the South with its Caseta Panamericana (built especially for the 1971 Pan American Games), the Pance River, the neighborhoods beyond upper-class Miraflores, the winged Andes mountain range, and the hideouts of sex and salsa in the final stretches of 15th Street ("la Quince").
Through the eyes of Maria del Carmen, Caicedo shows the different social groups of the 1970s Cali, that reflects also the Colombian society and in a wider way Latin America.
The first group she found is of Marxists who used to go by the streets of Cali or Bogotá with backpacks, untidy hair and Das Kapital to read anywhere to anyone who dare to listen to them as a kind of preachers.
She got bored of this first team and abandoned them soon to look more pure emotions She came to the rock world imported to the city by the children of parents who were able to study in the US and return to Cali wearing gang clothes.