25-year-old carouser Carlo is sentenced to one year of community service after crashing his car while drunk and on cocaine. He has to serve his sentence at the Villa Bianca nursing home, along with other non-violent felons. He initially lives it as yet another nuisance, but spending time with Villa...
An engineer named Francesco arrives on Emerald Island in the Seychelles and is instantly smitten with the local girl Jeanine, whose sister ran off with the previous engineer -- neither of them to be seen again.
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French...
Rome, 1977. Luciano Baccarini, married to the rich Irene Oro, is murdered at home while preparing a romantic dinner on the terrace for his lover. The investigations immediately focus on the man's private life.
