 Manolo and his classmates go on a school cycling trip into the Andes, but Manolo fails to keep up with the other boys.Determined to struggle on, Manolo has a moment of self-realisation in the enormity of the mountain landscape.Manolo is now 14, and he sells his bike (the same one as in "El camino es así") to Miguel, a gardener of mixed/indigenous descent with whom Manolo used to play football.