In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires, for deserting soldiers.
The arbitrariness of an evil father leads his children to patricide.
In a fishing village a young woman carries the guilt of her married sister, passing through the mother of her son.
A young couple pretends to have had a baby in order to get the girl's father's permission to get married.
A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.