Pacho Rada, great old man of Caribbean music, was also the inspiration for the character of the troubador, Francisco El Hombre, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez 'A Hundred Years of Solitude'. Rada first picked up an accordion at the age of four, and has been playing ever since, travelling around Columbia from village to village. At 93 this living legend makes his home in an iron shack on the outskirts of Santa Marta, whilst his recordings climb up the charts. Blending personal history, lively first hand accounts of the development of Salsa, Vallenato and Cumia, the film follows Rada on a journey along his country's Caribbean coast, as he encounters other musicians such as Alfredo Gutierrez, Israel Romero and El Morre. Rada's storytelling blends dream and reality, and interweaves magical,mythical incident with the harsh reality of life in a country beset by poverty and war.