A singer is trapped in France by the unforeseen outbreak of World War II and a man who serves the German occupiers demands, in exchange for safe conduct for herself and her daughter, to act as a spy and informer for members of the Resistance.
To hide his escapades, a justice of the peace with a dissipated life pretends to have a son out of wedlock, but when the young man appears in his town he complicates things.
This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.
Two gangs of drug traffickers try to control the monopoly of drugs in the city, while the police commissioner tries to kill them with the help of a snitch, "the puppet".
A train stops for a break in the station of a small town. That random moment allows the railway chief to fall in love with a beautiful passenger, who ends up wrapping him in a complex police plot.