The Patagonian steppe is swept by a grey wind… 13-year-old Mora wants to be a “gaucho”. She rebels against school and affirms herself to her parents, a couple of Swiss-Italian ecologists whose dream of autonomy has turned into a nightmare.

Mora will go deep into the meanders of the steppe to help her only friend Nazareno, an old Mapuche who has lost his horse, Zahorí.