Justin Chang of Variety gave a positive review of the film. The film received positive reviews from critics. The production was released on Apas part of the Vallenato Legend Festival.
According to Guerra, it was easy to find people willing to participate in the production, with the exception of the Arawak of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, who were a more reserved community so it took a year's effort to persuade them. The protagonists of the film had no experience as actors before the production, so they received a year of preparation for the making of the film. Guerra sees vallenato as an important cultural component pointing out "If there is the American imaginary of the western and the Chinese imaginary of the fantastic genre of martial arts, here is one very rich in vallenato". He decided then to demonstrate that the vallenato is more than "commercial music that is heard in the buses of the cities and that generates prevention in people". "A boy stood up and said: My name is John Doe, I'm x years old and I hate the vallenato. Guerra had the idea to make the film after an introduction meeting for students when he began to study films in the National University of Colombia. During their journey, Carrillo participates in the first version of the Vallenato Legend Festival in Valledupar. In 1968, on an Ash Wednesday, Carrillo, Morales and their donkey start a journey throughout several towns in the Caribbean region in Northern Colombia, to Taroa (a small caserío in La Guajira Desert, where Carrillo's master supposedly lives.
Carrillo reluctantly accepts, given his loneliness.
He is joined by Fermín Morales (Yull Núñez), a teenage boy who admires Ignacio and wishes to become a juglar like him. It is said that the instrument is cursed after Guerra, the former master, won a duel with the devil. Ignacio Carrillo (Marciano Martínez) is a vallenato musician from Majagual ( Sucre), who decides, after his wife's sudden death, to stop playing and return his accordion to his former master. The film follows the travel of vallenato musician Ignacio Carrillo (portrayed by real-life musician Marciano Martínez) who is followed by Fermín, a young boy who wants to be his apprentice, in a journey to return his instrument to his original owner, the man who once was his mentor.
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