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The employee housing of a cattle ranch in the Argentinean Pampas. The narrator highlights the contrast between the wealthy landowner and his poor employees, the gauchos. A gaucho puts a saddle on a horse, as woman pumps water from a well. Gaucho rides away, as woman rakes garden while small dog looks on. More shots of gaucho riding and a horse drawn cart. Ranchero and Supervisor ride through ranch and into cornfields where they inspect the corn. Shots of a combine harvester and other farm equipment working on windy fields, as birds fly and land nearby. A ranch hand/contractor emerges from a tiny corrugated hut and turn on the radio. Ranch hands cook meat on a spit, prepare mate tea, and drink wine as chickens and ducks walk nearby.