Horacio and Claudio are two friends who plan to spend a fun weekend with two young ladies. Settling into the home of Aunt Lucrezia, a millionaire who is traveling through Europe, a lender shows up and ruins his plans.
Siggi, Franz and Max are three downright dreamers. All three live in an apartment building in a backyard in Munich. In real life, all three are colleagues and work as painters and decorators. In their dreams, however, they are at their best.
Alberto, Jorge, Ricardo and Tristan are employees of a shoe store, all are married and share the friendship also between their wives. The 4 friends, faithful to the rogue style of Buenos Aires, go out of their way to have love affairs with the beautiful customers of the shoe store, and for that purpose one day they decide to rent, secretly, an apartment to use as a "bulín". The problems begin from then on, as everyone wants to be the first to release it and then, successively, take turns for their adventures. As is to be expected, it does not take long for the first entanglements to appear, while their wives seem to begin to suspect the adventures of these four typical Buenos Aires chantas.
Three stories told in a Turkish bathhouse: two braggarts are mocked by a starlet; two Boca Juniors fans and love-hate for two River Plate fan girls; a man, father of 8 daughters, seeks the boy despite his wife.
The story of a saxophonist with delusions of persecution that is being destroyed little by little by means of alcohol, drugs and sex. A story by Cortázar inspired by the life of Charlie Parker, it shows a fragmented narration and remarkable formal aspects.