This is the story of María Margarita, a girl with the strange gift of telling movies. When a film starring Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, or Charlton Heston, or a Mexican feature packed with songs, arrives to the village, exact change for a ticket is collected at María’s house and she is sent to watch it. When María returns from the cinema, she tells the movie to her father, confined to a wheelchair, and to her four siblings. Once she becomes famous, she will tell the movie to a public which awaits her impatiently.

Through this tender story, Hernán Rivera Letelier tells the magical tale of village cinemas in their times of splendour and decadence.