The story revolves around the relationship of Italian immigrants and Argentines. Nostalgia for his country of origin and life in a strange country. It is a call for the union of immigrants that evokes sentimentality. The film conveys the sensation of the musician, whom an Italian immigrant listens to, and feels "understood and unconditionally loved"

The police use Mr. Buendía to obtain information about a gangster to whom he is identical.

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.

A threatened financier is impersonated during a train ride by an identical-looking salesman.

A prostitute persecuted by the police, receives the interested protection of a greedy merchant. He takes refuge in his house one night and meets his nephew, a sensitive boy who wants to be a musician.

A man is found dead in a music hall during one of the numbers, so the performance is suspended and the police begin to investigate.

The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that time, Elena has gone into hysterics every time she hears that composition. Making matters worse, the lascivious clown is now her business manager.

A womanizer's girlfriend and future father-in-law try to teach him a lesson.

An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.

A humble boy can not be a sailor as he wishes, for lack of documents, and works as a driver for an old woman.