Against the background of the building speculation of a peripheral area that a prostitute will champion, the stories of two gangs of boys, led by Bredo and Malo, are narrated. They face each other with the few things that the land canals and rotten fish allow you to procure and fish.

Right on the disputed area and from which we try to evict those who live in the shacks on the edge of a big city, small plots of land have grown where vegetables and vegetables are grown so that the gardens, as they are called, become a whole microcosm atypical compared to the city although not far away but which ignores its existence.

Set in the early sixties, when economic growth becomes unstoppable, the poor paint the faces of many characters who are children of an extremely destitute existence, some of whom are prototypes of wealthy entrepreneurs and other freelancers.

The picture is dominated by a silent and yet seriously pernicious bourgeois conscience in forging the sexual morality of the weaker spirits.