The film consists of 16 shorts that explore, with humor and social criticism, the characteristics of the Argentine identity.

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high...

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of water out the window and onto his boss the chief...

The adventures of two friends, one a chicken vendor in a market and the other a policeman. They have love affairs and capture criminals.

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large...

A young man schemes to drum up business for his girlfriend's employer but after seeing her being intimate with another man, he attempts to commit...

Arturo, the successful owner of an art gallery, and Renzo, a talented but decadent painter, are old friends who cannot stop bickering. One day,...