It is 1909—a year before the beginning of the Mexican Revolution—and ten-year-old Pepino is busy living his life. As he engages in several exciting adventures—such as asking Lady Marianne
to be his girlfriend, fighting the gang from across the park and encountering a ghost in the old church at midnight—as well as other less exciting pursuits, such as metaphorically watching
the ducks go
by—Pepino finds himself at the heart of what he believes to be a mystery of unsuspected magnitude.