It is cold on Mount Manjaca. In the winter it snows and it is impossible to move until someone comes to clear the road, something which happens on some occasions but not on others. The panorama all around is white, the sky grey and the trees bare. Awaiting the Christmas festivities, a boy draws water from the well while his mother milks the cows. As he watches over the animals, which try to drink at the frozen stream, he recounts his ambition to become a television presenter. Everything around him underlines his isolation from another world, that of his dreams.