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A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
A group of young girls stranded on an island, where they meet the reclusive Luca, who hides a dark secret.
Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
Antonio is trying to become a successful singer when he suddenly has to leave for military service in the navy. With Little Tony, S. Rozin.
Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.
