The old gaucho portrays Orlando Vera Cruz, a singer-songwriter and poet from Santa Fe, who, with extraordinary energy at the age of 76, embarks on a pilgrimage — on horseback and by canoe — toward the origins of the gaucho: his vibrant image, his music, his poetic and human richness, and his coexistence with a present that seeks to shed light on the shadow of the indigenous people, their mixed heritage, and the deep roots of the peoples of the Americas.

On this journey, past and present coexist through the nostalgia of an Atahualpa Yupanqui still alive in the strings and voice of this gaucho, and of a Belgrano that reappears in the native voices and fragmented stories of a black-and-white struggle, striving to keep alive the memory of Argentina’s roots.