assistente
Describe las cuatro fases del amor: "el flechazo", «la crisis», «la traición» y «el abandono». Consta de cuatro episodios protagonizados por parejas diferentes. Se trata de historias normales y extraordinarias, dulces e irónicas, románticas y divertidas.
Dr. Lojacono
Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.
Clara es una mujer conocida por su belleza, su inteligencia y su espíritu. Amada y admirada por todos, ya comienza a imaginarse con terror la decadencia que inevitablemente vendrá. Es por ello que elegirá a un joven amante, Federico. Aprenderá todo de ella, sobre todo el amor por la vida, incluso cuando ella ya no sea tan deseable. Todo va bien hasta la muerte del Capitán Koller, el marido de Clara. Una vez finalizado el luto, Clara decide, desafiando las convenciones sociales, regularizar su situación y casarse con Frederico.
Old lady on the beach (uncredited)
Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.
In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the love they have shared, and they take to meeting one another furtively in hotel rooms for sex and affection. One summer, as each of their daughters families takes them on separate vacations, they have had enough, and elope, finding contentment as lighthouse keepers off the coast of Sicily.
A voyeuristic musician meets a seductive senator's wife who wants her husband and stepson out of the way...
Governante
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
madre di Giacomo
Anna (Guerin), la hermosa esposa de un abogado, se siente abandonada por este, por lo que decide irse unos días con su sirvienta (Michelsen) al pueblo natal de esta. A partir de este momento comenzará una extraña relación entre ellas.
