An Argentinian medical student, finding himself drawn to the countryside, houses with a Scottish/Native family where he reads the illiterate family the Gospel of Mark to then be found in a debacle of religious proportions (as he was not a pious man himself, but becomes more of a religious figure in their eyes).

El viaje de un hombre a la casa mística de su padre, un hijo y una hija, donde los extraños sucesos llevan al viajero a una mejor comprensión del poder redentor del sufrimiento y la muerte de Cristo.