Many years later, as she faced the firing squad, Captain Julieta Martínez remembered the day her father taught her how to read the wind. That day, he took her to the plateau near the village. He knelt beside her and guided her hands to feel the currents of air. Her father's name was Facundo.

"The wind is talking to you," Facundo said, "You just need to learn its language."

He taught her dozens of signs, and she struggled to remember them all. He made her practice, and she was able to read the sign "Heat." Indeed, the summer was hot that year. The next year, the wind told her, "Pests." She warned the elders of the village, and they were able to protect the crops by preparing poisons for the pests made of alabaster and snake's hearts.

Julieta's mother, Ursula, always eager to secure the family's livelihoods, told her that she might charge people to ask the wind about their fates. But Facundo told her that the wind would only speak to her about the fate of the village. The wind, Facundo said, was not interested in individual fates.

As the years passed, Julieta became a more skillful reader, until one day, the wind told her, "War." Facundo was concerned, and Ursula felt hopeful.

"Maybe you can enlist in the army, and they will pay you a decent wage!" Ursula told Facundo. Indeed, a recruiting officer for the army appeared soon, and Facundo volunteered. He never came back. Several months later, Ursula and Julieta received a letter saying that Facundo was killed in combat and his family was entitled to a pension. Later, his body arrived.

As Facundo was a respected wind-reader, all the people in the village came to his funeral. But the funeral did not go as planned, because as Facundo's body lay in the casket, the wind raised it and carried it away. Ursula cried and begged the wind to return the body, but the wind did not listen.

Several months passed, and a young man appeared in the village. He told everyone his name was Matías, and he had deserted from the army. Matías was a scientist from a big city, and he could teach the villagers how to tend to crops so that they were more resilient and produced more food. Ursula and Julieta told him he could live with them.

Once, he saw Julieta conversing with the wind and asked what she was doing. She told him about the wind language. He told her it was an old superstition and he did not believe in it. He also told her he loved her. She said she loved him as well, but they should not make love on the plateau as the wind would become jealous. But he just laughed and kissed her.

They embraced, and Matías pushed her against a rock and lifted her skirt. He undid his pants and entered her. She moaned, they fall on the grass, and she wrapped her legs around him. They kissed and held each other, moving in rhythm. She felt him inside her and moaned.

After they returned home, the jealous wind guided government troops to their village. They executed Matías on the spot and burned down most of the houses in the village. Julieta felt angry at the wind for this betrayal and stopped talking to it. Instead, she promised her people to help rebuild the village.

A dozen young and healthy men volunteered to collect resources. She led them using her knowledge of nature. They found enough clay and wood, but they also needed medical supplies, furniture, and tableware. So, they started raiding army supply convoys. The remorseful wind helped them by scaring the convoy horses and overturning the wagons. They became a successful team, and they called Julieta their captain.

Julieta's band gathered enough supplies to rebuild the village. Then the new heatwave came, and Julieta finally started talking to the wind again. She asked it to find clouds to bring more rain, which would save the crops. And then, during one of her band's raids, she was captured. The trial was swift and she was sentenced to death.

She called for the wind, but it was too far away searching for the clouds. She was executed, and the army brought her body back to the village. During the funeral, everyone feared that the wind would take her as it did with Facundo. But the opposite happened. The wind did not touch her body. More than that, it brought back Facundo's body. The father and the daughter were buried side by side.