Rennes, nowadays. Saïd still lives with his parents. He is having a secret affair with Vincent. Unable to face his family, he agrees to an arranged marriage with Hadjira. After an unhappy love affair and a few run-ins with the law, she too has resigned herself to obeying her mother. Trapped by their families, Saïd and Hadjira join forces in spite of themselves, to find their own freedom.

In the region of the Venezuelan Andes, trough the stories told by the peasants with fine sense of humor, we will travel backwards in time, following the thread that created the legends, through oral tradition, magic realism and songs that will reveal a collective conscience and the characteristics of their culture.