Gabriella Di Luzio

第2次世界大戦中のイタリア。シチリア島の漁村で暮らす12歳の少年レナートは、美しい年上の女性マレーナに魅せられる。彼女は結婚して2週間で戦地に送られた夫の帰りを待ち続け、レナートはそんな彼女の姿を見守っては想いを募らせていた。戦局の移り変わりで島はナチス、次いで米軍の支配下となり、戦争未亡人となったマレーナは自分を庇護してくれる愛人の間を渡り歩く。だがそんな彼女の行動は島の人々の反感を買う。

Nino is a pianist, he runs into Valentina in the underground and falls for her. Valentina is rich but she tells nothing to Nino who is proud. Andrea was the boy of Valentina before Nino and wants to marry her for her money. Nino leaves Valentina when he finds out that she is rich while Andrea, turned down again, kidnaps Valentina.

On a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled in his own accommodation.

Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.

Nino is a young and poor boy who meets Annamaria, a rich spoiled girl who's on holiday with his father in Capri.

After the Allies liberate Naples in 1943, life for the locals is not much easier, especially for women. Many sacrifice their dignity and morale to survive.

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.