Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local family linked to politics but also the church dealing in real estate business and welfare. Aldara may be pleased to see there Viviana again. Viviana is the widow of the dead man and used to be Aldara's girlfriend twenty years before

Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.

Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.

修女们抚养的孤儿侯爵尤金妮娅·迪·马奎达(Eugenia Di Maqueda)娶了雷蒙多·考罗(Raimondo Corrao)，但在他们新婚之夜，她发现他是她的兄弟。这则消息来自于他们的父亲从巴黎写来的一封信，他是一位住在法国总部的妇女，并对他们躲藏起来。为了避免这桩丑闻，这对夫妇决定以兄妹的身份生活。他以后会离开去参加在利比亚的战争，她会在家庭司机的臂弯里找到慰藉和性满足。