Joaquín Gómez Bas

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

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.

With the expansion of television in Argentina people changed their customs and schedules. This is the story of a family father who refuses to change his own, but who suffers after having acquired a television set.

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