Security guard Guido attempts a robbery to solve his financial problems, but he's double-crossed by Antonella, the younger showgirl he left his wife for, who runs off with the money while he gets arrested. In prison, Guido is forcefully involved in the escape plans of two lifers, an old Moroccan and a Turkish gangster. Once free, he sets out to find Antonella, who has since become a TV reporter, but things get complicated...

The Prosecutor Andrea Martinez is transferred to a town in the province of Turin for the love of Marina Ardenzi.

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.