Barlovento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a municipality in the northern part of the island of La Palma in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands
Mercedes Pietri was the daughter of a well-respected family in Caracas, who own a large cacao plantation in Barlovento.
Actively involved in archeological excavations in the Caribbean region around Cartagena, on 1954, the Reichel-Dolmatoffs located and excavated, amongst others, the Barlovento site, which was the first early Formative shell-midden site found in Colombia.
In La Palma found in Laurel woods at Los Tiles, Cubo de la Galga, Cumbre Nueva and Barlovento.
The film tells the story of the strange changes in the lives of the inhabitants of a small fishing village (possibly an allusion to Barlovento) in the Venezuelan coast after the appearance of a black virgin.