A young woman gives birth in Buenos Aires at the time of Rosas. As her husband was a young opponent of the government, supposedly murdered, she must fight against the gossip.
The film tells the story of the natural son of a former president of Argentina and father of public education in the country, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, named Domingo, according to the first autobiographical accounts.
Chanteur dans son enfance, il vit désormais reclus, traumatisé par ses expériences passées, et se complaît dans ses blessures jusqu'au jour où une femme le redécouvre.