La madre
In the theater of a small village, rehersals are taking place for a show based on the opera I Pagliacci. There is no orchestra, just a piano and the singers. Amongs the few people in the audience there is the mother of the singer, a rich local lady and financer of the project, the sister, and a few other people involved in the show. During a dinner party at this rich lady’s house, a hiposis session takes place, where rancor and pain emerge from the brother and sister towards their mother and their impossibility of overcoming them.
Tata Nené
Un matón que sodomiza a sus víctimas por encargo, deberá escapar de la mafia tras una misión fallida.
Mrs. Innocenti
Lucia (Margherita Buy) es psicóloga de animales, mientras que Fabiola (Claudia Gerini) vende casas de lujo en su agencia inmobiliaria. Las dos se odian profundamente, pero tienen algo en común: su amor por Paolo. Las dos estuvieron casadas con él; Lucia durante doce años, tras los cuales conservan buena amistad, y Fabiola durante ocho. La muerte de Paolo las obliga a encontrarse de nuevo, y descubrir un secreto de su exmarido: un hijo.
Carmela
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
Donna Crezia
Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.
Costumista
A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil war in Tebe. While they rehearse in the theatre cast members come and go and another kind of war goes on every day in nearby streets of old Naples.
zia Augusta
Madre di Antonello
During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very charming girl.
Antonietta
Narra las tragedias desiguales que asola las vidas de dos mujeres de los estratos económicos más bajos en Nápoles. Inmaculada esta casada, es bisexual, y lleva una carnicería que no está reportando mucho dinero. Conchita es lesbiana, hace trabajos manuales y ha sido condenada por disparar al marido de su amante. Inmaculada también ha ido a la cárcel por inducir a una joven a ejercer la prostitución. Inmaculada y Conchita desarrollan una relación intensamente apasionada en la cárcel y después de ser liberadas, desafían al marido de Inmaculada y el desprecio de la sociedad por irse a vivir juntas. Pero, al final, las amenazas externas no son tan dañinas, las como contradicciones internas.
