A girl who sometimes mistreats her father, leaves her home and leaves her boyfriend, seduced by an adventurer who starts her as a tango singer. The father is jailed after shooting the seducer and she tries to commit suicide but her old boyfriend saves her, starting a more successful way.
The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.
Mario Soffici's last film. The story is about a beautiful young woman who is criticized by the town's old gossip women and is defended by a generous priest. She has an amorous relationship with a young orphan.
Several individual stories converge in the imposing setting of the southernmost tip of the continent, all of them involving a crisis of faith. Most of the important situations in the film are based on real episodes, such as the massacre of indigenous people perpetrated by the landowners in the area.
Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.
