A musician from Cordoba arrives in Buenos Aires and stays in a pension where he will meet a lively porteño, a provincial who works as a chorus girl in a magazine theater, a friendly and helpful girl and a success.
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.
To sing and dance on their birthday, a girl has kidnapped the manager of the youth group Tremendo. Tremendo was a prefabricated pop band, created in Argentina to compete with Menudo, that Puerto Rican group that had Riky Martin in its ranks.
Leonor Capulletti and Quique Monteschi, fanatics of the same club, love each other in a passionate as well as conflictive courtship, because their respective families are allied in opposing and irreconcilable factions.
A mature woman, a martyr of the home, with a husband who has lost love and two children who are into something else, decides one day to rebel and try a new life with a much younger man.
