Tango musician moves to France to put an unhappy love affair behind him. Inspired by the life of tango composer Eduardo Arolas.

A freakish coincidence brings together a songwriter and the lyricist from whom he inadvertently stole the lyrics to a hit song.

An orphan young man in Argentina finds that his family's fortune is in ruins, so he goes back to Spain where he finds Chiruca, the family's maid....