Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
Screenplay
A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
Lucia's Aunt
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
1866년 봄, 오스트리아 점령하의 베니스를 배경으로 한다. 백작부인 리비아는 베니스 저항운동의 지도자이자 사촌을 구하기 위해 오스트리아 중위 말러에게 접근한다. 하지만, 그녀는 말러의 유혹에 흔들려 돌이킬 수 없는 사랑에 빠진다.
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
La prostituta religiosa
Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.