Through a series of sensitive charcoal sketches by celebrated artist John Gould and the dramatization and animation of these drawings by filmmaker Julius Kohanyi, the events of a market day in the Mexican village of Oaxaca come to life. As church bells clang its first lazy awakenings, we search the crooked streets leading to the old church, past peasants selling goods in the market square, to the exciting climax of the fiesta where "mariachi" bands compete to the singing and dancing of villagers under the umbrella of an elegant gazebo.
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