The play deals with one of Colombia's most excruciating problems: social exclusion and its effects on everyday life. The characters in this play are all urban outcasts: homeless, prostitutes, beggars, etc. They are trying to build bridges to the larger community through participation in a theater group. The group wants to do a rendition of García Márquez's "Crónica de una muerte anunciada." The difficulties and tensions that arise around this project underline the extreme character of their exclusion, by-product of the abject poverty and lack of opportunities they experience in a society dismembered by class fragmentation and inequalities. At the end, the place where they were rehearsing is shut down and one of them is killed. The project, too, had a "foretold death." This play is part of Teatro La Calendaria's exploration of non-verbal languages as a means of dramatic expression; it also marks the beginning of the collaboration with urban poor communities and the organizations trying to help them.