Fiorin Fiorello
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
Boja
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Laura
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns.
Melantho
트로이 전쟁 이후 정처없이 바다를 항해하며 떠도는 율리시즈의 여정을 그렸다. 전쟁을 끝내고 사랑하는 아내 페네로페가 있는 곳을 찾아 많은 고난과 모험을 겪어 나간다.
Annadora
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose.
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
Ines
이레네는 아들을 잃고 자책감에 빠진다. 그러다 신문사에서 일하는 사회주의자 사촌 안드레아와 만나며 정신적인 교감을 나누고, 그의 권유로 빈민촌 아이들을 돕기 시작한다. 이레네의 변화를 지켜보던 가족들은 그녀를 정신병원에 보내고, 다시 풍족한 가정으로 돌아오길 권유한다.
