In a Mexican municipality besieged by drug trafficking, a mayor uses controversial methods to maintain order in one of the richest and safest areas in Latin America.

The film tells the story of Mauricio Fernandez, mayor of the wealthiest municipality in Latin America located in the North of Mexico. He presents himself as a polemical figure who takes justice by his own hand in order to 'clean' his municipality of the drug cartels presence. A millionaire with a fortune valued at 800 million USD. He constructed his own palace with ceilings that he bought from William Randolph Hearst, the original Citizen Kane, and plagued the place with his own eccentric collections. Mauricio is a key character to better understand the present situation in Mexico and through the unusual views of this politician, the audience will be a privileged witnesses of an scenario where political tasks and excessive violence mingle with one another.—Anonymous

In northern Mexico, the murder of municipal mayors is a common practice in the fight between drug cartels to control territories. Mauricio Fernandez is a controversial Mayor who presents himself as one who takes justice in his own hands in order to keep the 'peace' in one of the wealthiest counties in Latin America. 'The Mayor' analyzes the complex plot woven from the exercise of power and current policies, within a period plagued by violence, strong economic interests, and the over whelming discredit of the political class.