Don Armando de la Peña, is the owner of a ranch located in a plain of the mountains of the province of Córdoba, administered by the loyal and honest Pedro Oria, a model of old Creole who lives with his wife and children Juan, Carlos and Maria. The former is lazy, gambling, and bad-tempered, while Carlos inherited the virtues of his father. Don Armando is not satisfied with his children. Mercedes, his favorite daughter, likes life in the big city, she is flirtatious and superficial even when she is in the ranch; she has an attitude of contempt towards Carlos, even after his life is saved, but that attitude hides a nascent feeling of love. His brother, also named Carlos, is what could be described as a bad person. With these characters various dramatic episodes unfold.

Inspired by the tango "De vuelta al pago", by the pianist Armando Chimenti.

The confrontation of civic sophistication with uncontaminated humble rural life.

Rural melodrama about the social and humanistic events that occurred at the dawn of the past times.

This was Gardel's first film and was directed by Francisco Defilippis Novoa and was made in collaboration with Celestino Petray.

A medic falls in love with a young blind woman, whose father is a writer who doesn't want to cure her so that she doesn't see the perversities of the world. In the end, the medic is the son of the writer.