In a sleazy cigar and newspaper store in Rome, an old newsagent nicknamed "Papa Re" sells his wares, warmed only by an earthenware heater that his granddaughter brings him each evening. One day, the stove falls from his hand and breaks into a thousand pieces. The same evening, when he opens the kiosk, he finds inside a woman, huddled up, with her little daughter in her arms: it is Rosalba Vignas, a singer-songwriter who has been chased away by her lover, Cesare le Milanese, who fell in love with his younger colleague.
Un noble, para defender a su esposa del acoso de un maníaco, mata a éste durante la lucha, pero sufre una herida en la cabeza. Los médicos, al advertir que una parte del cerebro del noble se ha dañado, la sustituyen por idéntica parte del cerebro de la víctima.
