The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.
The life of the cotton workers in the Chaco and its struggle for wages.
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.