Buenos Aires, 1917. La Boca, the port barrio, where Calle Necochea has eleven cabarets in four blocks and the tango is fourteen years away from being respectable.

• Knife violence, graphic; a death
• The cabaret trade's coercion of women, including sex work, shown without titillation
• Queer desire under legal and social threat; sex cuts away at the door
• Police corruption, licences as leverage
• Debt, pawnbroking, poverty
• Grief; a betrayal inside a family
• No slurs written out; class and racial contempt appear in who is served at which door and who is called by their surname

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