A 9-year-old would be all-American boy finds himself transported to a small Spanish seaside village in the late 1950s. Through the eyes of a child, and the memory of a grown man, he recounts how his life and his perceptions of the world were drastically altered, and describes for you in vivid detail the simple and beautiful village he discovered, a seemingly timeless place that has now been all but erased by the bustle and commercialism of the modern world.