치과의사 마시모는 이탈리아 라치오주 라티나 지역에 풀장이 딸린 단독 2층 가옥에서 치과를 운영하며 아내와 두 딸과 산다. 그런데 그의 가족이 사는 집이자 그의 치과는 외부와 동떨어져 외롭고 스산해 보인다. 어느 날 잘 가지 않던 집의 지하실에서 이상한 인기척을 느껴 살펴보러 다가간다. 놀랍게도 한 소녀가 지하실의 기둥에 입에 재갈이 물린 채로 묶여있다. 누군지도 알 수 없는 소녀를 누가 데려다 놓았는지 마시모는 혼란스럽다. 이제 그 주변 인물들이 의심스럽다. 그게 자기 친구일까? 아니면 자기의 전부인 사랑스러운 아내와 자기 딸들일까?
Riko is an honest man, who can count on a group of real friends and a wife who, between highs and lows, he loves forever. But he is also a very angry man with his time, which seems to be punctuated only by backlashes and false starts.
A group of wild, physically disabled lowlifes has the perfect plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong as each of them reveals their own personal agenda.
Claudia and Flavio were once passionately in love, but all of that is over. Now, in their fifties, they must venture anew into the world of love and dating once more but for Claudia confronting the end and accepting a new beginning isn’t so easy. Claudia is unwilling to let go and forget the life she’s built with Flavio, while Flavio, eager to move on, soon finds himself in a relationship with a much younger woman. Claudia soon reconnects with Nina, a student from her days as a professor.
Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life.
Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.
