Augusto Roa Bastos

Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

Based on the life of María Salomé Loredo, a figure famous for her healings and assistance to the poor of the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

The story takes place in San Antonio de Areco, in the Argentine pampas. Fabio Cáceres remembers his childhood as an orphan and his youth working in the fields, alongside his godfather, Don Segundo Sombra, a lonely gaucho whom he admires and from whom he will learn to be a gaucho, following him in all his adventures. Don Segundo will be Fabio's role model.

A casual monitoring becomes an obsession when a young man finds a man who reminds him of something that happened in his childhood.

A man whose wife was murdered on the wedding night returns to town to marry another and is resisted by the locals.

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.

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.

A teacher arrives to a small village in Santiago del Estero and must educate children against the will of their parents.

Plaquita, the widow of a Paraguayan officer, rescues a wounded sergeant who has been a companion of her husband. She takes care of him and nurtures him back to health. But they only have one hope, to keep fighting for Paraguay against the Argentine Army.

The love story between a man and a woman, children of rival fishermen.

The arrival in a bakery of the young wife of the boss, where the laborers are exploited inhumanly, unearths tension accumulated after many years of deprivation and maltreatment. A social drama about the exploitation of man.

The arrival in a bakery of the young wife of the boss, where the laborers are exploited inhumanly, unearths tension accumulated after many years of deprivation and maltreatment. A social drama about the exploitation of man.