The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
Carlo y su pandilla pasan el verano entre bailes, excursiones y juegos en la playa. Gracias a su influyente padre, Carlo se está librando de entrar en el ejército. Se está enamorando de Roberta, una mujer mayor que él y la relación parece progresar.
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
En una pequeña ciudad italiana, un grupo de hombres se reúne cada noche en la taberna para jugar a "El juego de la ley", que consiste en que uno de ellos desempeñe el papel de jefe y humille a los demás. Los jugadores están dominados por oscuras pasiones: Francesco y su cuñado desean a Marietta, pero ella se ha enamorado de Enrico y quiere casarse con él, aunque sea pobre.
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
