A distinguished Latin American doctor (Federico Luppi) is on a quest to locate his former students, whom he trained and deployed throughout the disease-ridden rural regions of their country. Soon, he realizes the depths of despair villagers face, as gun-toting guerrillas ransack the countryside. Stripped of his former idealism, he collects a group of pilgrims in search of a legendary village untouched by men with guns. John Sayles directs.