 As Verónico Cruz learns about the outside world from his teacher, so too does Lehrer come to understand and appreciate the indigenous people who live in northwest rural Argentina and their history.Lehrer, near the end of the film, is given a promotion and leaves Verónico's small village to teach at a larger school far away.However, the warm relationship between "el maestro" and Verónico ends after Verónico joins the navy and Argentine troops invade the Falkland Islands.