An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he lived during these formative years led him to write and publish his first major work when he was only 26 years old.
Mario Vargas Llosa
as Himself - Writer
Alfredo Barnechea
as Himself - Journalist
Jorge Edwards
as Himself - Writer
Rosa Regàs
as Herself - Writer
Alonso Cueto
as Himself - Writer
Héctor Béjar
as Himself - Writer
Carlos Aguirre
as Himself - Writer
Fico Camino
as Himself - Philosopher
Harry Belevan-McBride
as Himself - Writer
Carlos Barral
as Himself (archivo footage)
Jean-Paul Sartre
as Himself (archivo footage)
Julio Cortázar
as Himself (archivo footage)