The movie follows the life of Enrique Aet, an engineer whose main obsession is to improve communications between the Peruvian jungle and Lima.
Manolo is an adolescent who dreams about making movies. It's 1968 and, among his friends, he spends his last year before entering university on the beach and listening rock music. But his life changes when he met a hippie young girl: Emma. Now, with the intention to win her, Manolo will start to make unlucky decitions.
Flora Tristán flees to Peru for her inheritance, but her uncle leaves her penniless by altering the will. Returning to France, she becomes a writer and advocate for workers' and women's rights. Despite romantic entanglements, she chooses to focus on her work, leaving behind her love life.
