The story behind the film is based on an actual case in 1703, when Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk argued with the captain of his ship and was abandoned for more than four years on a deserted island.

Through gambling he earns the present and future savings of his companions, winning the enmity of the crew and Captain Bullock, who decides to leave him on a desert island.

The critic Diego Batlle said that to the rhythm of a catchy candombe music and with a colorful visual design (even if the finish is far from Hollywood perfection) this film produced in Uruguay in an artisan form -frame by frame- delivers good doses of humor And ingenuity in developing the misadventures of the pathetic crew of the Esperanza galleon, and especially the anti-hero who will be stranded on a tropical island.

It is worthwhile that a certain sector of the public accustomed to the frenetic pace and the spectacularity of the images of the animated productions of the North American cinema see this more than worthy Uruguayan proposal although it costs him a little accustomed to its tone, rhythm and style, because it will be a good Exercise that the children of today discover that there is another type of narrations as valuable and equally recommendable as those of the vertiginous digital images and effects in 3D.

The director has directed numerous shorts, one of which was chosen as a prominent film of the twentieth century by the Festival of Annecy, France, one of the most famous of the genre and one of the sources where he drank the cycle of the Black Caloi, the creator Of Clement.