The infamous 18 are El Salvador's biggest gang. They battle with the rival MS13 for control of the drugs market. They charge 'renta' to local businesses and kill those who don't pay. They are teenagers, the orphans of civil war, born in the heat of battle and unfazed by death. As we enter the desperate, death-defying world of the 18, we begin to see the political ingredients of one of the fastest developing gangs in the world.