Franco Mele

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.

The “meaning of life” told by Eros Puglielli in his peculiar directing style: weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other. A student in love with her philosophy lecturer, a disabled man seeking for his legs recovery, a young pop star desperate for a spiritual leader to meet. And above everybody stands an overhanging odd luminous man, maybe true, maybe not.

Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years and Eva has changed a lot. She lives in a luxurious apartment and dresses in designer clothes. Although she pretends to be an interpreter, Eva is actually a call-girl and, one night, fails to return from an appointment. Maria enquires at the hotel where Eva last worked. Eva's body is soon found. The investigation is conducted by Inspector Messina, a trendy cop. Maria and Messina become an inseparable investigating team. Maria poses as a call-girl in order to reveal her sister's killer and they use mobile phones to keep in touch.

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

A few funny little novels about different aspects of life.

대낮에 상점주인이 귀가 잘려진 채 시체로 발견된다. 긴장한 경찰은 정신병자의 소행으로 단정짓고 즉각 수사를 벌이는데, 출판사의 편집일을 하는 부유한 미망인 트레이시(Tracy: 조안나 파큘라 분)의 집에선 시체의 잃어버린 귀가 발견된다. 수사반장 마이클(Michael: 토마스 아라나 분)는 트레이시와 이 사건을 연관짓게 되고 죽은 남편의 친구 티모시 벨을 찾아 나선다. 그러는 동안 신체의 일부를 회손시키는 엽기적인 살인사건은 계속되고 회손된 부분은 모두 트레이시에게 배달된다. 한편 마이크는 피살자들이 모두 죽은 트레이시 남편에게 장기이식을 받은 사실을 알아내는데...

Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.