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 rigid, tight-fisted control over his grandchildren, who eventually begin to rebel against his authoritarian and ironically puritanical behavior. At first, there is no real awareness of his opposite, criminal behavior outside the home. But as one of the grandsons begins to mature in his political savvy, the grandfather comes under well-deserved fire at last.

A group of poor people living on the bare minimum in a slum, trying to survive in a world that seems to have no place for them. With a tone raw and realistic story portrays their daily tragedies, and their struggle to survive.

Primer film del tríptico épico que completan "El santo de la espada" y "Güemes, la tierra en armas". Adaptación del poema sobre el gaucho Martín Fierro del escritor argentino José Hernández. Cuando Martín Fierro regresa al rancho familiar lo encuentra abandonado. Recuerda entonces su apacible vida hasta que fue reclutado a la fuerza para servir en el ejército de la frontera, del que acabó desertando. Una voz en off recita los versos de Hernández, relata los enfrentamientos con los indios y denuncia las injusticias sociales y el autoritarismo que se ceban con los más humildes.

This haunting drama concerns a young woman on vacation from boarding school who discovers her aunt cloistered in the attic.

A group of young aristocrats lock themselves up, for fun, on a terrace in a wealthy building in Buenos Aires. Their parents try to get them out, but they threaten to jump down if any adults enter the terrace.