Nora
알프레도는 소심하고 젊은 이탈리아 남자다. 얌전하고 성실한 은행원으로 근무하고 있는 그는 아름다운 마리아 로사(스테파니아 산드렐리)를 따라다니고 구애한다. 그러나 결국 그녀와 결혼하고 지내게 되면서 인생이란 것이 그렇게 상상했던 것만큼 기쁜 것이 아니라는 것을 알게 된다. 이후 매력적인 여자 캐롤리나(칼라 그라비나)와 관계를 맺게 되지만, 피곤하고 귀찮은 그의 부인과 이혼할 수는 없다는 사실을 알게 된다.
Luciana
A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
figlia di Ciccio
Two Sicilian shopowners who live in Rome pick up some beatnik hitchhikers and the group gate-crashes their seaside villa. In the meantime the two men's wives smell something fishy going on and go to the villa themselves. To make things worse the place is also invaded by three prison fugitives who terrorize the lot.
A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released after fifty years. Due to a mysterious miracle, however, he remained as he is, just like the novice he impaled.
