A musician decides to return to his hometown in the Pampas plains of Argentina to recover a guitar that belonged to his deceased mother, but in order to get it he will have to reconnect with his father, with whom he has been estranged for years.
Itaeté, a Guaraní elder, tries to instill his traditional legacy in Ulises, but the boy's vocation is music. Due to an accident, the old man dies, and Ulysses accepts the atavistic legacy of canoe construction.