Monica Clay

Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.

Une jeune et belle vendeuse en confection rencontre un producteur de cinéma : elle fait une première apparition dans un film pour midinettes. Puis ils se marient. Le producteur, conquis par son charme, la choisit pour incarner un rôle plus ambitieux, celui de Jeanne d'Arc. Hélas, le résultat est un cuisant échec commercial. Le producteur sera ruiné et la jeune débutante sera désormais cantonnée dans des films de série B. Un reflet du fonctionnement de l'industrie du cinéma italien dans les années 1950.

Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.

Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

À l'été 1942, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un groupe de jeunes parachutistes de la division Folgore, après avoir été soumis à un entraînement long et fatigant en Italie, est transporté par avion dans le désert libyen pour couvrir le front italo-allemand...