1945, the Chilean poet Nie Luda was elected as a senator. After the Rightists came to power, Nie Luda, a party member, was forced to go underground with other leftists. The revolutionary, known as the "enslaved poet", went into exile with his young wife to an island in southern Italy a few years later. The couple didn't return to the motherland until the authorities revoked 1952' s order to arrest left-wing writers and political progressives. 1994 The Postman, nominated for best picture at the Oscar, tells an ordinary and touching story with Nie Luda's exile in Italy as the historical background.
Mario, an unemployed young man, is the son of fishermen on the island. In the cinema, he learned from the documentary that the refuge of the great Chilean poet Nie Luda was his hometown-Salina, an island at the ends of the earth. Everyone warmly welcomed the famous poet. Mario was lucky enough to get a job as a postman, responsible for delivering letters to the poet. Letters from all over the world began to drift to the quiet island, so Mario rode his bike across the mountain road and visited the hut where the poet and his wife lived every day. Inspired by Nie Luda, he began to feel the beauty of poetry. There is a deep and sincere friendship between the postman and the poet.