Maurice Jouvet

A jazz-club sax player (Jack Wagner) sees his ex-lover (Tracy Scoggins) in Buenos Aires, with her mobster husband.

An amateur singer leaves his town to go to Buenos Aires. In town he falls in love with a girl, but he won't be able to get rid of his fat girlfriend that he left behind in town.

A parallel police group attends a scientific conference and goes into action. Their mission: disrupt a gang of criminals that rob a memory bank.

During his childhood, Nino arrived from Italy to live with his uncle in a humble neighborhood. There, he begins working in a butcher shop and falls in love with Natalia, his neighbor. However, she has other aspirations, such as winning over her boss at the jewelry store where she works.

The story unfolds through the twists and turns of a strange curse attributed to a jewel that, passed from hand to hand, carries a deadly destiny. Its theme spans the three countries where it was filmed (Spain, Mexico, and Argentina), beginning in Spain and then moving to Mexico. The jewel, which takes on the character of another figure in the narrative as it travels through different parts of the world, arrives in Buenos Aires. The film ultimately presents the jewel's final destination in Mexico, where its owner dies, like others who were also marked by its malevolent influence.

In the 1930s a young revolutionary falls in love with a young woman of innocent appearance but who really works in a brothel.