Cars and progress made an old carriage-driver jobless and so desperate that he becomes a gangster. When his own son starts a life of crime, he repents and gives himself to the authorities. When he lives prison, he will be happy to rejoin his family, as his son repented, too.
The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
Semi-documentary film in which a fictional plot is narrated linked to events that really occurred in the history of Argentine aviation between 1908 and 1938.
In 1840, a caravan of carts headed from Buenos Aires to Córdoba carrying merchandise, ammunition and prisoners, against the background of the struggles between the Unitarians and the Federalists.
The film narrates events of the Revolution of the Park, carried out by radical sympathizers on July 26, 1890. There is a secondary plot with the romance of a girl who, despite being in love with her father's godson, must contract a marriage with a banker that fails.
A medic falls in love with a young blind woman, whose father is a writer who doesn't want to cure her so that she doesn't see the perversities of the world. In the end, the medic is the son of the writer.
