Nilla Pizzi

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

Two young men are training for a rowing race on the Tiber. One of them, "Marco" is distracted by a new found love.

Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.

Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.

The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.

A cabaret singer, now a widow, is dethroned and expelled downstairs by a fiery rival.