Maria Margarita is a young girl from a small Chilean village who is famous for her strange gift of recreating the stories of movies. When a new film comes to town - whether the latest Marilyn Monroe or Gary Cooper or a Mexican musical - the villagers pay her to watch the movie so that she can tell them all about it on her return. Tender, magical and moving, Hernan Rivera Letelier tells the nostalgic tale of South American village cinemas in their full glory.