Two con artists, one smoothly experienced, the other incompetent, join forces and become involved in a complex scam involving forged copies of rare stamps. The story is set over the course of a single day in Buenos Aires. Nine Queens trusts its audience and rewards attentiveness, and shows how a modestly budgeted film can create suspense through an intelligent script and terrific performances. The film is often cited as one of the defining films of modern Argentinian cinema and it also revived the con film for a modern audience.