Her mother, Alma, had told her about him, how he deserved being hunted down by the soldiers out there in the Yuro Ravine. And so Ofelia had thought quite a bit about Señor Guevara...

The world-renowned Che Guevara, who brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba, has been abandoned and captured. During the moments he and Ofelia have with each other, each discovers the possibility for love in a time of terrible war.