Antonio Scapparo ne supporte plus sa femme et se réfugie dans le grenier pour lire des romans policiers, fumer le cigare, et prier son protecteur, Landru.
During the women's demonstration on March 8, 1972, Mariasilvia SPOLATO was there with a placard: Liberazione omosessuale. A month later, Simone de Beauvoir came to Rome to give an interview, and this placard illustrated her article. Mariasilvia could no longer teach, ended up homeless and spent her life on the trains.
Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
Donatella, fille d'artisan, garde la villa d'une riche Américaine pendant son absence. Elle fait la rencontre d'un riche avocat dont elle tombe amoureuse.
Ercole Pappalardo, marié, cinq fils, cherche par tous les moyens à gravir les échelons de la société dans laquelle il travaille, mais rien ne se passe comme prévu.
Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.