Adolfo Prieto
Dr. Duhalde
A widowed mother cannot prevent her child from dying from an overdose.
At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, a single mother tells the story of how alcoholism destroyed her personal and professional life.
Inspector Blanchard
Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.
An award-winning architect struggles to find work, love, and a purpose in life.
The life, customs and death of an authoritarian man.
Terrifying story, based on a fact occurred in Buenos Aires, early 1967, and reported in "La Nación" and all the other newspapers, after the death of a woman interned at the Instituto de Detención para Mujeres (Detention Centre for Women). Doctor Vallejos, the magistrate in charge of the inquest, gets enmeshed in personal intrigue, organized corruption, lust and vice in which apparently all the penitentiary personnel and an organized gang of dangerous inmates are involved, operating withing the prison itself.
Raúl
A sexually-repressed girl of the Buenos Aires slums slowly goes mad after marrying.
While a bachelor party is being held in an apartment, the death of one of the hired girls exposes the fears of men.
Manuel Dorrego
The political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.
Renato
An Italian woman arrives in Buenos Aires and suffers all kinds of social and personal misadventures.
Alberto (segment "La estrella del destino")
A movie in four parts. A frustrated woman finds love with a painter ("La estrella del destino"). A woman tries to seduce her subordinate when she takes him to her apartment ("La buscona"). A woman who killed her husband falls in love with the gravedigger ("La necrófila"). The sexual awakening of two teenagers and the reaction of their parents ("Chicos jugando al deseo") .
El ciego
Delia Mañara is notorious in her quarter of Buenos Aires for the mysterious deaths of two of her fiancés. She lives in a twilight world and gains most satisfaction through the exercise of power over others.
The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.
Roberto
The frustrations felt by certain middle class youth in Argentina, under the presidency of Arturo Frondizi during the sixties.
Raúl Andrade
Three different love-related stories -all starring María Vaner as different "Anas". In "The Earth," Ana is a young and idealistic woman on the verge of adulthood when her first relationship with a clerk shatters her dreams of a romantic life. In "The Air," Ana is a rebellious, easy-living type among some beach bums whose sexual leanings tend to tip the scale at active promiscuity. In "The Cloud," Ana only exists in the imagination of an introverted man, who dreams of his ideal woman.
Toribio Torres, alias "Gardelito"
The title of this story is taken from the name of the great Argentine singer Carlos Gardel, the idol of the antihero Toribio portrayed by Alberto Argibay. Toribio's goal in life is to emulate the famous singer and making his own way successfully in the music business. Yet at the same time, he does not stop his illegal means of making ends meet, stealing and petty thievery. Discouraged when his big break never quite materializes, Toribio heads for disaster when he joins up with a large smuggling scheme.
Ranchera singer and his sidekick travel to Argentina to mix it up with a playboy who bragged to them about the tour he'd book for them.
Mario Cardoso
A philosophy teacher is raped by her night school students.
A young man lives on the islands of the Delta del Tigre and remembers how his family defended themselves against invading outlaws.