An Argentinian girl, about to turn 18, leaves on a study trip to New York, and then decides to stay there. Her caring father goes after her to get her back before her mother can get too worried.
A Swedish journalist in Buenos Aires is about to reveal the circumstances surrounding the young Swedish-Argentine woman Lena Melin's disappearance. The military junta of Argentina is threatening to deport him.
Describes the internal life of a girls' school from families of strong economic position that traditionally, laziness or comfort transferred to various educational institutions responsible for the moral, intellectual, social and spiritual girls used to a life without problems, the most with terrible examples of marital relationship and behavior of their parents. Thus fall into emotional chaos, led to drugs, violence, prostitution and sexual deviations.
An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
