El brigadista

The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when in 1961 over 100000 students were sent from their schools into the countryside to teach the peasants there how to read Coinciding with the Bay of Pigs invasion in this docudrama 15yearold Mario Salvador Wood has come to a tiny village in the Zapata swamps and gradually wins the villagers over to his task At the same time he receives an education in the realities of rural life from the hardworking peasants