The film begins with some sequences related to the youth of Dr. Ricardo Gutiérrez, his arrival in Buenos Aires from his native Arrecifes, his law studies and a double frustration, as a writer and in his crush on a young woman who loved another man.
A doctor is persecuted after treating a tortured man at a police station.
The action occurs in Abasto Market in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A grown up single woman marries a mafia man who promised her he would change. After they've married, his past come to ruin the wife's life.
A store clerk lives in the furniture section without anyone noticing.
Buenos Aires, Argentina. A failed reporter teams up with a Hungarian immigrant to set up a fake correspondence journalism school.
When a young woman who knows nothing about housework falls in love, her grandmother and nanny make her seem like the ideal housewife in front of her boyfriend.
Aging-roue comedy: foxy grandpa's doctor tells him he needs to cut out the high-living and make a stable, tranquil home for himself, as befits his age and station... but he decides he'd rather do that by marrying his nephew off and piggybacking on the domestic tranquility created in that household.
El Grito Sagrado (The Silent Call) is a fictionalized retelling of Argentina's fight for independence from Spain. The story is "personalized" by being related through the eyes of Mariquita Sanchez de Thompson y Mendeville, played by popular Latin American leading lady Fanny Navarro. Rebelling against the cozy traditionalism of her family, Mariquita weds tireless patriot Martin Thompson (Carlos Cores). She remains by her husband's side as he helps to fend off a British invasion and to achieve freedom for the Argentine slave population. Oddly, the principal villains in the film are the British, a reflection perhaps of Argentine dictator Juan Peron's ongoing efforts to curry favor with Spain.
A submissive and unhappy man is mistaken for a famous assailant and people who despised him begin to respect him.
A successful actress tells a journalist the story of her love for a musician who left her once she was successful.
Under the threat of blackmail, a young woman visits an ex-lover, only to discover that he's been murdered and the blame rests upon her.
In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
A university professor tries to help pull his son's life back into order after his son falls in with a bad crowd.
A great dancer, unable to continue dancing, takes as a disciple a girl who wants to succeed.
Catita patterns are separated and, momentarily, decide to leave the house in charge of it, dismissing the rest of the household staff. Furthermore, Catita accidentally causes a fire, leaving many people homeless and living temporarily offered together in the mansion, she pretended to be the owner to the outsiders.
In colonial Buenos Aires a widow marries a condemned man out of spite.
On the night of his marriage a young man runs over a cyclist. He believes he is dead, he hides the body and a mysterious character appears.
An italian man is unfairly imprisoned and his wife must work to maintain the family.
When a concert pianist is crippled in a car accident, his wife turns to gambling and gets in over her head.
