A 25-year-old young man who lives in the middle of rice plantations divides his time between exhausting work in the fields and the rigorous study of classical music. Déia, his transverse flute teacher, encourages him to participate in an important music festival that revolves around the 150th anniversary of "Carmen", an opera by French composer Georges Bizet. The desire to leave the countryside and participate in the festival makes the young man have family conflicts.