 It shows how he touches the lives of the villagers, especially the young and impressionable boy Verónico, whose mother died and father left to seek work when he was an infant.The film is based on a non-fiction book written by Fortunato Ramos, a rural teacher in northwest Argentina, that discusses his teaching experiences.The film is set in the mid 1970s and ends at the time of the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina.