This Mexican film is poetic, philosophic, and quite beautiful. When a 12-year-old boy climbs a fence to get into the yard to get his ball and meets the mistress of the house, he does not know she is a great poet, and painter, and actress. She is old and dying, but she has enough energy left to teach him the facts of life--something he can't learn in school, which he has a hard time dealing with because he is a young starseed and it is mundane for him. She leaves him a box with her latest book, to be opened when he is 20, with ownership rights to it. She passes on but not before teaching him that inner peace is inside; not fame, nor money, nor education can bring it to you and give it to you. I wouldn't miss this film! Katy Jurado. Spanish with English subtitles.
~Gabriel of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
