In a time of financial precariousness and descent into poverty, two brothers in Apulia lose everything they own.
Teodosio
U Vecchie
La relación entre un amable viudo y una joven inmigrante africana que trabaja en su restaurante desata el escándalo y la violencia en un pequeño pueblo italiano.
Anziano
Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action.
Nonno Ernesto
A group of burlesque dancers arrives in a little town.
A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated like a guest for a whole day, thus cementing his assumption that all the opulence and kindness he saw on TV were true.
Tommaso's father
A factory worker in the south of Italy, frustrated by work and marriage, withdraws into nature, but in the search for love and human warmth he ends up "on the dog" in the sense of the word.