Facundo is a normal and normal boy, who needs a job to survive. He has just finished high school and is in a critical situation that does not allow him to continue studying. This is how he begins to wander around the city for several days until one morning, through a classified ad, he meets Doctor Benavidez, a man of respectable appearance, who offers him a job in decent conditions. But not everything is what it seems.
Abel Amoroso, a cadet in a notary's house and responsible for taking the deposits to the bank, is kidnapped by a gang whose leader, Luis Santanelli, has an incredible physical resemblance to the cadet. The captor adopts the identity of his sosias, elopes with the loot, convinces investigators of his innocence, and marries Abel's girlfriend.
Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian attempts to organise dad Nestor to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to light the oven. Later Nestor can't fix a broken lamp, but his son soon sorts it out. Nestor wants to act and invent money raising schemes whereas Sebastian yearns for a dad with a steady job. Nestor gets a role in an ad and pursues acting work. He seeks backing to market ping pong balls with world cup logos though the event has passed. The essence of the story revolves around how these conflicting aspirations can be reconciled.
An amnesiac carnival psychic is haunted by the thought that a man is coming to kill her.