Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.

Cast:Francisco Rabal, Nuno Da Costa, Luiz Saraiva, Kim Yaroshevskaya, Isabel Serra, Gaston Caron,

Genre:Comedy, Drama,

country:Canada,

Production:Cléo 24, Les Productions EGM, ONF | NFB, Téléfilm Canada, Société Générale des Industries Culturelles du Québec (SOGIC),