South Frontier

Several European families emigrate to Argentina at the end of the nineteenth century. Roque works distributing tobacco, and resists the temptation to move into more lucrative substances. He is a widower and too faithful to his dead wife to do more than gaze wistfully at Sara, who is dying of cholera. Roque meets a ghost called Maidana, who leads him to Piera, a lonely brothel owner.