Mr. Ortuzo and his wife Concheta invite a married couple, formed by a voluptuous blonde and a deaf-mute, to spend a weekend at his house in Tigre. Ortuzo is a millionaire poet who inherited a strange personality changing, the day is effeminate but at nightfall becomes "supermacho".

Two friends are looking to earn easy money by gathering people to help them deposit a large sum of money in a fixed term of seven days, to live on the interests, which are higher the greater the amount deposited. This has immediate consequences on the lifestyle of the characters, who are increasingly ambitious. Portrait of the Argentine middle class in full hyperinflation, when financial speculation was the order of the day by the man in the street.

Toto is a scrap metal dealer who became rich by a stroke of luck. Having fallen in love with a woman from a higher social class, he decides to take etiquette classes so he can get closer to her.