Gemma
While her best friend Vale can afford to be a full-time performer, aspiring dancer Eli has an unemployed husband and four children to take care of, and works all day long in a cafe on the opposite side of the city, meaning she has to wake up before dawn and comes home late at night. Her kind and effervescent nature still manages to overcome this hardships.
Signora anziana farmacia
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
Widow
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Cleaning Woman
Turim. Quatro inocentes morrem em um atentado. Phillippa (Cate Blanchett), uma professora de inglês, não oferece resistência e permite que a prendam. Ela não nega seu ato, sua culpa. Mas seu alvo era outra pessoa: um traficante. Um jovem policial (Giovanni Ribisi) é o único que acredita na história da inglesa, pois está secretamente apaixonado por ela. Ele desenvolve um plano que lhe devolverá a liberdade, mesmo que isto custe sua carreira ou até mesmo sua vida. Ele sabe que não deve pedir nada em troca para provar seu amor. E sabe que não pode se arrepender de sua decisão.
signora Rossi
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...
Pensionata della megaditta
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.