Opus

In July 2002 an American Producer comissions director Mariano Donoso a documentary on the state of Education in San Juan the province where he was born On the first day of filming a teachers strike begins paralyzing classes in the whole province and indirectly the film itself Donoso consequently embarks on an odyssey which is sometimes funny and sometimes sad through the past and present of his homeland Stikes claims Sarmiento the earthquake the provinces bureocracy and its relationship with Buenos Aires and finally the desert await for Donoso in his venturesome journey