A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.

Dino feels inadequate in life and needs to be able to free himself of everything inside him. With the help of psychoanalysis and a priest friend he achieves his goal.

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.