Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.

A father, a son. Two distant words. United by the same story.

Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.

Rosalba (Nicoletta Romanoff) is in love with Danilo (Filippo Nigro), a young man serving his sentence in prison. To help him cope with loneliness, she decides to write every day a sweet, passionate love letter. But as she is unable to express her feelings in words, she seeks help from her friend Katia (Capotini Christian), who lives confined to a wheelchair. These letters, in principle, should express the feelings of Rosalba, but finish reflecting those of Katia, who wins the heart of Danilo. The result is a love that will struggle to overcome any barrier.

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

Paola began an affair with a surgeon who is irresistibly drawn. But her husband is police and is investigating the death of this man's last lover.

Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.