Orlando Dolci

After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.

The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.

ある日、ローマの郊外から市内に流れ込むテーヴェレ川のほとりで、中年の娼婦（しょうふ）が死体で見付かる。警察はかっぱらい一味のカンティッキア（フランチェスコ・ルイウ）や、高利貸しのカリッファ（アルフレード・レッジ）らを次々と召喚。そのほかにも休暇中の兵士テオドーロ（アレン・ミジェット）らが取調室に呼ばれ、それぞれ証言をしていくのだが……。

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.