Luis Bertolini

In the 1944 San Juan earthquake, the parents of a child died who had to go live with an evil aunt but who, finally, succeeded as an actor.

During the colonial period, a man buys a small piece of land in Mendoza and marries a slave woman. The dry and arid climate harms the yield of the land from it. In need of money to buy the freedom of his spouse, he decides to undertake the task of building with his own hands a kilometric ditch that carries water from the river to his fields.