Hot Sur tells the story of MarÃa Paz, a young Colombian immigrant who marries a white police officer, also the son of immigrants. The officer ends up murdered as a result of his involvement with an illegal weapons traffic deal. MarÃa is unjustly charged with the murder and locked in the very sinister Manninpox prison. She survives incarceration and-with the help of an important lawyer from New York-is finally released. However, she is declared a fugitive from justice after her failure to appear at the trial. But she doesn't only flee from justice but from Sleepy Joe, her husband's brother, who is also her lover and who ends up being the sinister serial killer.