Un joven de 17 años, desea salir de la pobreza en la que vive con su madre obrera de una plantación de yerba mate en la provincia de Misiones, al norte de la Argentina. Convencido que su suerte cambiará al encontrar a su padre que vive en la ciudad de Asunción en Paraguay sueña con viajar a visitarlo. A 17-year-old boy wants to get out of the poverty in which he lives with his working mother on a yerba mate plantation in the province of Misiones, in northern Argentina. Convinced that his luck will change when he finds his father who lives in the city of Asunción in Paraguay, he dreams of traveling to visit him.