Los integrantes de una murga donan el dinero que ganaron para ayudar a su director, atacado de poliomelitis. Basada en una historia real, el film refleja la epidemia de parálisis infantil de 1956 en Argentina. René Mugica began his professional career as assistant and then, for a long time, as actor, and then swiched to directing and writing. El hombre de la esquina rosada is considered his best film, based in a story by Borges, and was considered by the autor the best adaptation of a story of his.