In 1952, Eva Paron is dead. Deeply shocked, Argentina mourns the premoture death of this country girl whose meteoric rise to defender of the poor has changed the nation's history in a few short years. As told by the story-teller, Che (Antonio Banderas), Eve Paron was born Eva Duarte, the ilegtimate daugther of a pennilesformer in the tiny Pampas town of Junin, west ofBuenos Aires.