Plot Summary:A humble peon finds a job in a big city butcher's shop. His boss, a sinister character, introduces him to the meat business while subjecting him, by means of pressure and extortion, to slavery. The boss's overwhelming cruelty will inevitably lead to tragedy. Based on real facts.
Based on true story, Hermogenes, a farmhand, takes a job with a butcher in Buenos Aires and quickly finds himself exploited, extorted and manipulated by his boss, Don Latuada. Illiterate and trapped by his circumstances, Hermogenes reaches a breaking point that leads to tragedy.