Alessia Fugardi

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.

After the death of her husband Fausto, Stella decides to return to the house by the lake where she was born and where twenty years earlier she knew him, remaining conquered by the melancholy.

Anthology film following six stories of strangers briefly meeting on the Rome Metro.

A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.

In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.

ローマ、サベリ街の総合病院の小児科病棟。13歳の少女ヴァレンティナ、通称ピッピ（アレッシア・フガルディ）は生後3ヶ月で発病し、てんかんと診断された。小児精神科の若き医師アルトゥーロ（セルジョ・カステリットー）は、それが誤診であり、心の病であることを直観的に見抜く。彼は薬物を使わない心理療法で発作の原因を探ろうとし、ピッピとできるだけ長い時間を過ごすようにする。アルトゥーロはやがて、ピッピの苦しみは、愛のない生活を続ける母チンチア（アンナ・ガリエナ）と父マルチェッロ（アルマンド・デ・ラッツァ）の歪んだ関係を全身で感じ取った彼女が、いつしか自分が逃げ込める世界を作り上げてしまい、心の行き場を失った時に“発作”を起こすのだと確信する。ある日、彼は“スヌーピー”の本をおみやげにピッピを訪ねた。アルトゥーロは、彼が子供の頃に愛した挿話を話し、「かぼちゃ大王が夢をかなえてくれると信じて、かぼちゃ畑に座って大王を待っていた」と語る。この日を境に2人の間に温かい友情が育まれていく。