El Año de la Peste (English: The Year of the Plague) is a Mexican film categorized as drama, thriller and sci-fi.

The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year published in March 1722.

[2] A dreadful sickness is found in a Mexican town.

A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature.

The government tries to manage the information in order to prevent terror.