Un grupo miserable de actores, bailarines, músicos y cineastas argentinos se embarca en un tour teatral hacia algún país latinoamericano. Si el amor y el dinero son irreconciliables, 'Por el dinero' es la historia de esa tragedia.
Feminism, Victoria Benedictsson, Leandro N. Alem, the Radical Party in Argentina, suicide, stunts, Edgar Allan Poe, the complicated relationship between low-budget films with a political aim and the film industry, Robert Louis Stevenson, fiction, facts, greed, gold treasures left by the Jesuits in Argentina, the 19th Century vs. the contemporary and the search for truth and wisdom are the background for this portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentine film director.