Maria
After the son of a wealthy family is kidnapped by a group of ruthless criminals, a group of policeman and a Chinese waiter desperately try to solve the crime.
Brünhilde
In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.
Motorcyclist's Girlfriend
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
Micól giovane
1930년대 말, 이탈리아의 작은 도시 페라라. 부유한 유태인 가문인 핀치 콘티니 가의 미콜과 알베르토는 저택에서 파티를 열고 테니스를 즐기며 평온한 나날을 보내고 있다. 무솔리니 정권 하에 민족차별법이 공표되고 전쟁이 임박하는 등 파시즘의 광풍이 몰아치는 가운데, 핀치 콘티니 가문은 세상과 동떨어져 궁전 같은 저택 안에서의 삶을 누린다. 미콜과 알베르토의 오랜 친구인 조르지오는 미콜을 열렬히 사랑하지만, 미콜은 조르지오에게 쉽게 마음을 내주지 않고 오히려 그의 친구인 말나테와 가까워진다. 유태인을 향한 박해는 점점 더 거세지고, 평화로울 것만 같던 이들의 삶에 위기가 닥치는데…
Maria Cristina (segment "Giochi acerbi")
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.
Donatella
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
