SynopsisSet in the 1940s, Donkeys is the story of Lautaro, a ten-year-old kid who lives in the so-called Tierra Caliente in southern Mexico. After his father is killed, the boy is sent to live with an aunt in a far away town Lautaro decides, for a number of reasons, to run away home and on his way back discovers many people, living and dead to help him on his journey.