Professor Nicotera
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
Группа людей собирается в монастыре иезуитов, чтобы в тишине и одиночестве пройти курс духовного совершенствования. Судьба сводит вместе поставщика церковных свечей, бывшего заключенного, внешне благополучных политика и романиста... Свои проблемы есть у каждого, только для мелкого воришки Дом тишины становится возможностью ускользнуть от полиции. Истории этих людей переплетаются с душевным кризисом священника, усомнившегося в своей миссии духовного наставника.
Il padre di Luisa
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to a baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: at first she takes her son abroad with an excuse and then has her grandson kidnapped making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
Lo zio di Filippo
signor Leverdet
Il sovrintendente
In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Medico
The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family.
A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
Un uomo al 'Astoria'
A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.