The Marquis
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Dr. Crisafulli
가난하고 무식하지만 마음이 착하고 뜨거운 여인 티티나는 남편이 건달패인 아시카테나에게 살해당하자 오직 복수의 일념만으로 살아간다. 그러던 중 지주의 아들로 변호사겸 정치가인 스팔론은 고향으로 돌아와 주민들의 복지를 위해 일하기로 결심한다. 스팔론은 티티나를 좋아하게 되고, 아시카테나가 티티나를 해치려하자 스팔론이 나타나 구해주지만 스팔론은 이 과정에서 중상을 입는다. 티티나는 스팔론은 간호해 주면서 사랑이 움트게 된다.
Friend
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.
the lawyer
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
