A doctor moves to the Argentine mountains to start a new life. Living like a hermit, he will become a gold seeker until he falls in love, for the misfortune of him, with the wife of another miner.
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
A group of young people from the Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires recount their wanderings and their days in high school at the time of the National Organization in Buenos Aires.