I'm getting no nodes at all from a view with the NodeReference Field References: ID argument.

I created a view, added the 'NodeReference Field References: ID' argument, set the option to a nodereference field and added to the URL the nid of a node that had a value in this field.
I expected to get the nodes that were set in this field, but the view was empty.
I had no other filters on this view and I set the argument to 'return all values' for no argument, to check there was nothing else going wrong with it.