Alberto de Zavalía

El hombre que amé

A man agrees to sell his youth to a strange character.

Estrellita

A young woman takes care of her father and silblings after the death of her mother, giving up love in the process.

La honra de los hombres

In a fishing village a young woman carries the guilt of her married sister, passing through the mother of her son.

Casa de muñecas

The conflict of a woman with her husband when she starts defending her individuality.

Malambo

Based on a quechua legend, Malambo tells the story of a woman who lost her husband and son because of the greedy patrón of an hacienda. She swore that she would never remove the cloth over her eyes until her dead were avenged by the deaths of the patrón and his daughter. Nature seems to be on her side, since a drought has afflicted the land. Her other son, Malambo, accepts the duty of revenge. Malambo is no normal human: he is the runa-uturungo, or Hombre Tigre, of Quechua lore, and he cannot be wounded by bullets. He leads the obreros to rise in revolt and defeats the patrón. However, instead of killing the patrón's daughter--the blind Urpila --he falls in love with her, thereby breaking his mother's heart.

Escala en la ciudad

The story follows Jaime Lara, a passenger whose ship makes a stop in Buenos Aires for one day. Lara elopes, leaving his wife on board, and walks around the city at night, coming to meet a beautiful yet frivolous hooker, Isa.