A middle-class man earns a millionaire fortune that he decides to use to pay Argentina's foreign debt.

In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the work of two young priests.

Jorge de Oliveira is an Afro-Brazilian poet who works in a publicity agency in São Paulo. Torn between his rich white lovers and his black family and friends, Jorge's situation serves as a springboard to a discussion about racial issues in Brazil.

A police officer joins a gang of smugglers to try to unmask its members.

A woman robs the authoritarian boss of a criminal gang and then falls in love with a buddy.

The moral conflicts of a conservative politician, his wife and a bully, in the Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century.

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and unable to come to grips with his condition, he stirs a sympathetic chord in another blind inmate. She in turn, slowly enters into a relationship with him that starts to transform the ways he perceives himself and his blindness.

The life of the tenants of a Buenos Aires tenement during the interwar period.

A doctor arrives in a small, provincial town, and must pass himself off as a healer to gain the trust of its inhabitants.

The film refers to the "gray neighborhoods", called in Argentina "villas miseria", in which the less qualified workers or those who have recently arrived from the rural areas live in the industrial cordons.