When newlywed Angle Vicario and Bayardo San Román are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home the very night, where her humiliated mother beats her savagely and her two brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar. As he wakes to thoughts of the previous night´s revelry, Santiago is unaware of the slurs tha have been cst against him. But with Angle´s brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town jnows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.
