This Mexican film chronicles the life of Carmen Andrade Bravo from her graduation from teachers college with a love of children as she says goodbye to her parents to accept a job in a remote village in Mexico's southeastern region where the climate is hot and the people are poor. Young, idealistic and full of life she happily takes on an uncertain future but, over the years of her life, events happen which wear her down and you can see the light gradually fade from her eyes as everything is eventually taken from her, even the loss of a leg in a tragic event with the only man who will ever love.
