Welcome Mr. Marshall!

Villar del Río is a very quiet, isolated village, submerged in poverty and illiteracy. Suddenly, its mayor receives the news of the imminent visit of a committee of diplomats for the Marshall Plan, the American organisation in charge of facilitating economic help that the Government of the United States had made available to reconstruct post-war Western Europe. The news creates quite a stir among the neighbours who want to impress the Americans with an extraordinary welcome...