O documentário desenha o retrato de alguns de músicos excepcionais de tango, incluindo criadores de repertório clássicos e fundadores de uma variedade de estilos e escolas, bem como os membros das bandas e orquestras que alcançaram a fama nos anos 1940 e 1950, na era dourada do tango. Vários protagonistas se tornaram grandes nomes no exterior, enquanto outros restringiram sua atuação ao interior da Argentina. O músico e compositor argentino Gustavo Santaollala (vencedor de dois Oscars por suas músicas para os filmes O Segredo de Brokeback Mountain e Babel) atua como guia, para apresentar as grandes estrelas do famoso ritmo - Leopoldo Federico, Lágrima Ríos e seu violonista Aníbal Arias, além do dueto Libertella e José Luis Stazo.
Cancionista
A married couple rents a room in their house to a newly married couple with sexual problems.
Various musical episodes make up this film-magazine in which Del Carril tried to merge his two great passions: cinema and tango.
A Mexican singer travels the world and finds love in Argentina.
Mercedes/Mecha
In a train repair shop, a passion involves a woman and, years later, her daughter.
The granddaughter of the watchman of a theater that is going to be demolished has the dream of being a successful female singer like her mother and the son of the theater owner makes it possible.
A manicure receives a huge fortune by mistake.
Esperanza
The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells.
La Morocha
The director of a tango set is in love with the singer but she marries another man who eventually abandons her. In their old age, their children will fulfill their dreams.
Doña Inés
A retired actor decides to donate his savings to his nephew and move to an old house, there he meets an old love.
Institutional short film planned and directed by Arturo S. Mom for the First Argentine Film Festival in Mar del Plata. The film shows the technical process by which an Argentine film is produced and emphasizes the professionalism and power of the national film industry. In this way, the story explains in a pedagogical way what is a script, a frame, a camera, a set sketch and a projected background, among others, and how a scene and the soundtrack of a film are recorded.
Amalia
A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.
The life of Élida Passo, pioneer of medicine of the Buenos Aires of the XIX century. By 1870, the first women tried to practice medicine in an area reserved for men; and through sacrifice and struggle, they begin the path towards a more egalitarian society.
A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.
Rosarito
A grocer gets rich speculating on the shortages generated by World War II until he suffers the consequences firsthand.
