The film tells the story of an unnamed village in a mountainous region of present-day Colombia, focusing on its children in the perspective of 9 year old Manuel and his family.

Manuel lives with his mother, father Ernesto and infant brother on a small finca, owning a couple of cows and raising pigs.

At the same time, a large black sow that Ernesto was pulling runs nearby, a detonation is heard and the animal flies in the air.

The film revolves around Manuel's attempts to retrieve the ball, with the help of his older friend Julian and Poca Luz, an albino boy, as well as the changes in the village including, the growing number of absent students at school, families fleeing while paramilitaries and guerrillas are moving in and fighting for control of the area.

The film was positively reviewed in The Hollywood Reporter as operating "at the more accessible end of the arthouse spectrum, wrapping up an essentially tough, even bleak narrative within a lively, soccer-themed evocation of childhood".