Desc: Don Segundo Sombra: Directed by Manuel Antin. With Adolfo Güiraldes, Juan Carvalledo, Luis Manuel de la Cuesta, Luis Medina Castro. The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentina pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the field, next to his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a solitary gaucho.