Emilio and Guillermo are two sports club employees, that are fired due to their incompetence at work. They overhead that their favourite girls are going on vacation to Mar del Plata, and they decide to go. Once there they go to the casino and lose all their money, they find jobs as lifeguards.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Isidoro Vidal and his friends, who are in the transition between maturity and old age, watch in stupefaction and helplessness as gangs of extremely violent young men roam the streets murdering elderly people with absolute impunity.
Based on a true story, the film narrates the life of a fictitious Peronist union leader who, after years of militancy, gains power in the union during the 1960s and gradually becomes a corrupt bureaucrat.
