Sandro is very polite yet a little unsure of himself. Luciano on the other hand is bold and sharp but has a mysterious dark side to him. They meet at a restaurant where they both work as waiters. Like many of their peers, Sandro and Luciano have the feeling Italy has little to offer and decide to seek their fortune together in Cuba, the new frontier of hope where anything is still possible.
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to teach the peasants there how to read. Coinciding with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this docudrama, 15-year-old Mario (Salvador Wood) has come to a tiny village in the Zapata swamps and gradually wins the villagers over to his task. At the same time, he receives an education in the realities of rural life from the hard-working peasants.
