A veteran popular singer comes to town with her daughter in order to achieve success in television. She introduces her daughter to a contest winning one of the top prizes. At the same time, a veteran politician is campaigning to scale the governor's office.
The vicissitudes of six different couples who arrive at a hostel in Buenos Aires called La Cigarra and are quarantined because of a supposed bubonic plague, causing all kinds of inconveniences and entanglements as a result of this forced coexistence.
This routine drama set in Argentina during the 1930s draws parallels between a family patriarch and a political despot who stoops to any corrupt means to increase his power and wealth. The parallels are easy to make because the man is the same in both cases. The grandfather in the family has a...