An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.

An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.

The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous segregation - he holds prisoners the people entrusted to him by those who, for reasons of interest, have decreed their disappearance.

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.