Seeking to quench his thirst a man returns to a town that fears the dangers of water, for its inhabitants know that everything dissolves in it, even morals. Characters from his past live in more fertile lands and await him with the hope to be reunited with the fire lost after his departure. But this fire can only burn if the water washes away the walls that suffocate them. And once the water has receded, it will only take one man to light the fire.

Castilian literature has a myth like no other: el Don Juan. An new opera based on the homonymous piece by the writer Leopoldo Marechal, who continues this tradition but presenting it in a colour never seen before. Loaded with autochthonous symbology, the piece mixes the European Christian heritage with the local myths of the Río de la Plata Basin. These localisms however are not the greatest contribution Marechal makes to the myth. Through his words we meet an adult Don Juan who returns to his hometown seeking to quell his cravings -which now hunt him- and therefore seeking a repose that he has never lived. For the very first time a Don Juan that acknowledges the consequences of his actions and, something as unprecedented as rioplatense, is melancholic.