Juan Alvarez, a Spanish refugee in Canada, shoemaker, picks up at his home Manuel, a 12-year-old Portuguese teenager, whom he teaches to read, to assert his rights and who speaks of the Spanish civil war.
Francisco Rabal
as Juan Alvarez
Nuno Da Costa
as Manuel Estrada
Luiz Saraiva
as Vasco Estrada (as Luiz Saraïva)
Kim Yaroshevskaya
as Rosa Alvarez
Isabel Serra
as Estella Estrada
Gaston Caron
as Jimmy
Ginette Boivin
as Michèle Leclerc
Robert Toupin
as M. Fortin (le professeur)
Michel Dumont
as M. Castillo (le directeur)
José Barrio
as Pablo
Simon Quévillon-Loiselle
as Angelo
Marco Lavoie
as Costa
