Elisabetta Piccolomini

Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to the Mitterrand Doctrine, is suspected of being its instigator. When the Italian government asks for extradition, Marco goes into hiding with his daughter Viola, precipitating also the life of his family back in Italy.

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees them taken to an island in Sardinia to wait out the threat. This situation, somewhere between a forced vacation and witness protection, sees the men delve further into their work, the retreat allowing them to hone their case. Fate, however, is not to be escaped, and all too soon danger returns.

Gianni is sixty. He is retired but has not become lazy for all that. In fact he is a helpful fellow who gives a hand to all those who need one: shopping for his wife, walking the pretty neighbor's dog, and so on. Everybody likes Gianni, but is it for the right reasons? Doesn't his wife profit by the situation (she still works so it is only logical that Gianni do all the chores)? Isn't he subject to the excruciating whims of his rich mother?... Sure, everybody LIKES Gianni, but who LOVES him? Agreed, being kind to them, he is the ladies pet, but he does not attract them anymore. That is why, when his macho lawyer friend Alfonso blames him for not having young mistresses "like every other senior Italian male", Gianni, who is beginning to ask himself questions about what it is like to become old, starts chasing dames.

Anna é contadora em uma firma de seguros. Casada com o rude Alessio, com quem tem uma relação estável e tranquila, leva uma vida rotineira, mas confortável. O nascimento de seu sobrinho e as indiretas do marido criam nela a pressão de engravidar. Enquanto isso, Anna começa a se sentir atraída por Domenico, colega de trabalho misterioso. Apesar de ambos serem casados, a atração logo se transforma em uma relação proibida, e Anna e Domenico passam a se encontrar uma vez por semana em um motel. Mas o caso termina sendo descoberto, obrigando-os a decidir entre a paixão e a vida familiar.

Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...

A vicious teenager tries to sabotage a naive new teacher at her high school.

Three stories that provide an irony-laden analysis of the Neapolitan bourgeoisie and of small-time intellectualism and aspiration.