A university student comes to stay with a bedridden woman and her four children. Helping out around the house, she soon grows fond of the mother and children. An attorney falls for the student, but the couple experiences problems when she declines to leave what he refers to as "that lunatic asylum."
There are 3 stories about the intermediaries of marriage (the ads of magazines, seers and agencies): Sentimental mail, about an energetic woman who wants to marry a dominable man; Elixir of love, on the subject of the title; and Romantic about a melodic singer.
Juan remembers his childhood spent during the fifties in Argentina, when he lived doubts, fears and conflicts typical of the passage towards adolescence, surrounded by his family and the neighbors of the neighborhood