Three old schoolmates who in their time as students had formed a kind of secret society called The Black Hand in order to embitter teachers lives meet again years later with very different lives One is a dads son who is distracted as best he can another has become a writer of espionage novels and is persecuted by the CIA and the third leads an indolent life without further ado The reunion of the three friends will make the society of La Mano Negra revive