A widow who must collect her husband's life insurance is courted by the director of the insurance company, until the dead man appears.

A peasant family composed of Don Juan de la Cruz Pizarro, his wife Doña Juliana and their six children who, like the branches of a tree, grow and detach from the trunk that gave them life ..

Rosario is a beautiful young peasant who travels along the Maule river to be employed in a house of dubious reputation. The young girl falls in love with Juan, a robust and attractive fisherman. Don Ramón a hairdresser seduces the young woman and travels down the river with his new love.

A criminal confronts the police by firing at them with a machine gun from the first floor of a villa on the outskirts of Buenos Aires and occasionally shooting down a policeman. The gunman has time to reflect, to load his gun, to run from one window to the other. Whoever leads the police notices the futility of his efforts and suspends the fire.