The film tells the story of the payador José Betinotti, a mythical character in Argentine music. It faithfully reconstructs the scenarios of the early twentieth century: the workers' struggles, the party meetings of the caudillos and the circus criollo, the cradle of Argentine theater and music.

A humble woman breaks her relationship with her boyfriend and dedicates herself to taking care of her siblings, as they grow up she is left alone.

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.

A humble and good-natured man is disappointed when the young woman he loves becomes involved with a millionaire.

Episodes of the action of the gendarmerie against smuggling.

A man in debt obtains a miraculous skin that makes all his wishes come true but at the cost of shortening his life.

A woman who's just about to commit adultery gets compromised due to an unpredicted mistake during her adventure.

Two sisters struggle to get out of a Buenos Aires suburb, where debts with a loan shark have kept them apart. But soon the inhabitants of the neighborhood forget their differences before the appearance of an epidemic.

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.

A neighborhood hairdresser suddenly becomes a boxing champion and abandons his girlfriend to get engaged to a star.

A capricious "new rich" makes her employees suffer with her moods, until she hires a poor servant that can make her open up.