Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.
An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
The parallel accounts of the story of the Virgin of Luján in the seventeenth century and of a blind violinist who regains her vision during the Pope's visit to Argentina in 1982
A long-distance bus is assaulted, and in the tragic event the wife and son of a well-known lawyer die. After three months of rest, he leaves the hospital, with only one thing in mind: to avenge the death of his loved ones.