El amor del capitan Brando 1974 Fernando, an old Republican exiled, returns to the imaginary town of Trescabanas after 35 years of absence Aurora, the attractive young school teacher of the small town, is rejected by the bigoted neighbors, who see a dangerous source of corruption of their students in her methods Juan, her intelligent student of thirteen, takes refuge in the imaginary world of his adolescent fantasies to escape reality The film tells the impossible love between Fernando, Aurora and Juan