Catita goes with her husband to spend the honeymoon in Rio de Janeiro and on the trip they fall into the hands of a player who will try to use them to achieve their ends.
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"
In a town plagued by the murders of the "Killer of the Seven Leathers", a prostitute helps a religious young man when he's attacked by hoodlums. He takes her to his ragged shack filled with Catholic objects, where she tries to seduce him.
A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
A single mother who is denied work to support the son she had with the aristocrat who had seduced her, is helped by a singer, a director of orchestra and an American female singer, who get her shelter in the humble pension where they live.
A laid back woman, a romantic man and a father who allows his son to choose his partner freely, produce a revival of the famous novel treating its characters in an ironical way.