五十四岁的瓦加斯刚从阿根廷科连特斯省的监狱中释放出来。他唯一想做的事情,就是寻找自己已经长大成人的女儿。女儿住在河上游的丛林深处,一个遥远又潮湿的地方。为了到达那里,瓦加斯必须乘坐小船沿着丛林间的河道走很长时间的水路。瓦加斯是一个沉默而矜持的人,他所经过的风景都被一种深深的神秘感笼罩着。一路走去,他遭遇的神奇事情,遇见的人,一切一切,仿佛自从他关入监狱以来,就一直没有改变。它们构成了一个不变的世界,一个时间已经消失的世界。Vargas, a 54 year old man, gets out of jail in the prvince of Corrientes, Argentina. Once released, he wants to find his now adult daughter, who lives in a swampy and remote area. To get there, he must cross great distances in a small boat on the rivers, scoring deep into the jungle. Vargas is a quiet and self-contained man. He possesses the restraint of those living close to nature. A deep mystery surrounds him, the people he encounters and the places he goes through, all that taking in the unalterable world he finds almost unchanged after his long years of incarceration.