In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.

A reporter becomes involved with a band of terrorists hiding in the mountains between Peru and Bolivia.

Silvio, a young poet and inventor, struggles to find employment and to give meaning to his life. Silvio has a homosexual relationship, which leaves him traumatized.

The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

The Aquarius secret service super agents face a mob boss.