这部电影围绕肥皂剧的概念展开。 它的结构基于这样的假设：智利的现实不存在，而是肥皂剧的合奏。

　　A man finds out the child he has been raising for 9 years might not be his son after all. They then set out to find the real biological father.

A man finds out the child he has been raising for 9 years might not be his son after all. They then set out to find the real biological father.

　　The fisherman Peroá and his assistant Cavalo Cansado are fishing in a boat but they do not find any school of peroá (a Brazilian fish from Espírito

　　布宜诺斯艾利斯，2001年11月。阿根廷陷入危机，比索不断贬值。胡利奥·法韦尔是“庞贝的邻居”探戈乐队的手风琴演奏者，这个乐队共由五位普通的劳动者组成。乐队的演出收入逐月减少，胡利奥从父亲那里继承的鞋店也生意惨淡，于是他被迫决定永远离开自己深爱的布宜诺斯艾利斯。但从这一刻起，生活似乎开始捉弄他

影片讲述是智利南部的一个庄园主胡里奥·加西亚，他专制独裁要求他的妻子和孩子、庄园中所有的人都服从他的命令。但随着一场争吵，胡里奥说一不二的局面就此瓦解。