Boyhood friends grow up, form a tango orchestra, one of them writes a brilliant song commemorating their friendship before he dies.

This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.

The attractive, exuberant and beautiful Flor Tetis Soutien de Gambeta (Isabel Sarli), an ostentatious woman who kills men, has just been widowed for the eighth time. All her fortune was fading little by little and she now she is about to be ruined. But suddenly he sees her good luck reappear: A little canillita (newspaper seller), Pepe Mangiabróccoli (Pepe Marrone), with a good heart, who suddenly becomes a millionaire by earning the prode and falls in love with her.

A millionaire commits suicide by leaving his fortune to a poor young rival and then, as a ghost, teaches him the true importance of money.

Tuberculosis and a passional crime prevent the final triumph to a boy from the slums who has opened his way in boxing.

The conflict of a good man fighting between two loves: the violent love for a fascinating woman and the tender love for the little son, orphaned of a mother.