Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.

A glamorous female singer Zazà has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne. But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.

Anna, a woman with a troubled past, marries an honest worker at the SIMA mechanical workshop, who provides her with a decent life despite financial difficulties. Blackmailed by a man who knows about her past, Anna loses her mind and kills him. Sentenced to ten years in prison, she dies in childbirth while giving birth to a baby girl.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.

Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.