Out of the blue, a meek, old painter begins receiving love letters from Rosaura. This intrigues his fellow boarding house tenants, so they involve themselves into his relationship until one day the mysterious Rosaura appears.
A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."
It tells the story of an almost perfect crime that happened in one of the most important circuses in the country, the Tihany Circus. Several are the suspects that will come to light, but only one is responsible for the murder of the important businessman. Only an old commissioner (Tincho Zabala)...
Returning to Argentina, an engineer trained in Europe visiting a friend of his father and meets the teenage daughter, who begins a relationship of love and passion.
The political career of Juan Manuel de Rosas, twice Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires (1829-1832 and 1835-1852), who also ruled the Argentine Confederation during his second term in office.
People from rural zone comes to Buenos Aires with the intention to improve it economic situation and end up in a shantytown and find an escape of this situation by goint to dance (Bailanta).