In Villa 21, in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires, two gangs clash and apply their own codes. A trial convicts and sentences one of the gang members to death. A story of love, moral codes, and revenge.
After 140 years, there are alternatives to an asylum. Leaving Romero closely follows the experience of deinstitutionalization, focusing on the lives of the users and those who are the driving force of this process: the young people who make up the Movement for Deinstitutionalization in Romero.