In the Buenos Aires of 1900, a man seeks to avenge the death of his brother, killed at the exit of a fight.
Contrary to the principles of his mother and sister, a boy falls in love with a woman of light life.
Ceferino is the train station chief o a remote town. A group of planters ask him to legit them the wagons to send the harvest to Buenos Aires, he agrees, but he gets fired.
