“Mi vida era la misma que la de miles de gringos: araba y sembraba la tierra, y los domingos iba al bar”. Tal es el estribillo a lo largo de LA PAMPA GRINGA, que trata de relatar el sentido de comunidad construido por los colonos europeos que en 1865 colonizaron por primera vez el pueblo de Esperanza, ubicado en la provincia natal de Birri, Santa Fe. Compuesto en gran parte por daguerrotipos yuxtapuestos de la época e impresiones de periódicos, LA PAMPA GRINGA exhibe la habilidad de Birri para tejer narrativas a partir de documentación histórica en una forma hábil y admirable.

Two middle-aged brothers fall in love with a tango singer they have met in a gambling hall, after she is stranded in their border mining town, causing them to turn against each other.

1937 film by Arturo S. Mom

An Argentine who emigrated to the United States finds himself by chance in Argentina for business. There he hires a woman, Paula, who is from a traditional but poor family, and he finds himself falling in love with her.

This is the story of a suburb in Buenos Aires, its neighborhood, and how they live together in poverty, conjoined by the games of the children, and the love and support of the grown ups.