Truffaut widmet sich erneut dem Thema Kinder und Kindheit. Die Dreharbeiten fanden in der Kleinstadt Thiers statt, in der uns kleine Episoden des Lebens verschiedener Kinder zwischen Schule und Familie gezeigt wird, kurz bevor die Sommerferien beginnen.

María is an Amorúa girl; an indigenous group that traveled the savannas of Orinoquía as nomads. She lives with her grandmother Matilde, her sister diana and her cousins in Puerto Carreño, in the Colombia-Venezuela border. The amorúa are considered wild and are not literate. Matilde wants her granddaughters to learn to write and read to live better in this town of "rational whites" as they call us. The director follows María's life for 8 years from her childhood to her adolescence and invites her to travel the places her grandma did as a nomad.