Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...

Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano.

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

An Italian adaptation of the Richard Wagner opera Lohengrin, where a woman prays for a saviour, and receives it in the form of the title character, a man who will marry her and stay by her if she never asks him his name.

Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?