A huge store in Buenos Aires is about to close due to restrictions on imports. The owner of the store returns from a vacation in France, and knowing the financial situation proceeds to throw a big gala party. He hires a man he had met abroad to pose as a fake earl, hoping to attract wealthy clients.

The most aristocratic woman of the town is seduced by a Turkish man.

A workers' strike provokes acts of violence and the death of the town's commissioner.