Biopic of Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of a Mapuche cacique and a white woman, and the first Indian of South America to be beatified. The film starts out as a war movie, showing his father Manuel battling the Spanish and taking a white woman as his captive bride. But little of interest happens after Ceferino is born. His beatification relies partly on his "miraculous" survival after falling in a stream as a baby, but the film does not present this with any great drama, and plods through the rest of the boy's life with similar tepor. Ceferino does well in school, attracts the interest of a priest, attends a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, and studies for the priesthood in Italy, where he dies of tuberculosis after a few unconvincing coughs.
El profesor Horacio Tomasino, conocido como el profesor Hippie (Luis Sandrini), ha sido trasladado al colegio nacional de Esquel, ¡en La Patagonia! En el tren en que viaja, conocerá a Elisa Frías quien también llega como directora de una escuela cercana y al cura Raúl (Piero), quien se convertirá en la voz cantante de aquella fría pero esplendorosa tierra, donde deberán luchar de nuevo para salir avante con su proceso educativo.
Relato de la epopeya protagonizada por el general San Martín, uno de los artífices de la independencia argentina.
The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.
