Capítulo final da trilogia de Pasolini inspirada em contos clássicos do erotismo, que se iniciou com "O Decameron" e "Os Contos de Canterbury." Aqui a história é centrada num jovem que se apaixona por uma escrava. Um homem começa uma viagem à procura de sua amante, uma bela escrava chamada Zumurrud, que foi raptada por um ser de olhos azuis. No caminho de sua longa busca, seu caminho vai cruzar com uma série de outros personagens envolvidos em traições, cobiças e desejos.
segretario dell'onorevole Puppis
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
The Rector
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
A senator
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
Raoul
Um italiano é atraído para o partido fascista quando é instruído a assassinar seu antigo professor universitário, um antifascista vocal exilado na França durante os anos 30. Baseado no romance homônimo de 1951, de Alberto Moravia.
Accusatore di Tiburzia
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
Cesare
Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the theories of an Austrian psychoanalyst. The creator - Professor Emilio Missiroli - wants to show that only a thousand breaking taboos' that stifle the sexual life can liberate man from his existential malaise. Every night, so, for a whole week, men and women of the group will couple through a draw, without giving any importance to their feelings, thus demonstrating that these can and should do without. Based on Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution.
Painter
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
