Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), 1992. URANIA CABRAL returns to her home town. She barely recognizes the decrepit, mute and motionless, old man: her father, AGUSTÍN CABRAL, alias "Cerebrito" (Brainy). He was the president of the Senate and right-hand-man of the dictator Trujillo for many, many years, until he fell out of favor. But a long time has passed and Urania is telling the story 35 years later to her aunt and cousins -who don't understand why she hasn't come to visit for so long-, and her father. Finally, she will confess the terrible secret that led her to flee her home and family, a secret that destroyed her life forever.

La Fiesta del Chivo (The Feast of the Goat) is also the story about the men and women who gave their lives to end one of the bloodiest tyrannies in the recent history of Latin America. Their epic feat and Urania's story are interwoven in an intense kaleidoscope of love, hatred, death and violence.

A film based on Mario Vargas Llosa's gripping novel wherein a terrible personal drama combines with political conspiracy, an historic feat and a tragic end that marked a new era in the history of the Dominican Republic.