The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.
Adolfo Güiraldes
Don Segundo Sombra
Juan Carvalledo
Fabio as Young Man
Luis Medina Castro
Antenor
Juan Carlos Gené
Don Sixto
Luis Manuel de la Cuesta
Soledad Silveyra
Aurora
Héctor Alterio
Gaucho in Black
Alejandra Boero
Quack Woman
