When Rafael was 17, he was a musician not a revolutionary. He didn?t carry a mouser, neither a gun, only his old cornet in the bundle dangling from his shoulder with the rest of their meagre belongings. But the murder of his father, and his desire for revenge led him to join up with General Pancho Villa, the elderly philosopher Longinos and Reina Huarte, a young Indian girl. Rafael becomes, without wanting it, in General Pancho Villa?s lucky charm and privileged witness of his overwhelming nature. With them, and his trumpet by his side, Rafael's adventures in Chihuahua state will lead him into ambushes, train rides and desert shootouts, all captured by the lens of a young American director, Raoul Walsh. It's an adventure that will change Rafael forever, and whose end will only be revealed years later in a Hollywood film studio. Centauros del norte happens in the dust of the road of our lives, everything we think ahead and we realize what we have to leave behind. A story of love and revolution.
