 Verónico comes to idolise his new teacher, who is also known as "el maestro" as a sign of respect and affection.At one point in the film "el maestro" takes Verónico on his first road trip to San Salvador de Jujuy, the capital of the Jujuy Province, to look for Verónico's father, who the boy has never met.While there Lehrer is interrogated harshly by government authorities and discovers Castulo Cruz is considered a subversive by the military and that he probably has become a "desaparecido".