Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by his violent stepbrother Aldo. Things degenerate further when the four brothers find themselves embroiled in a murder.

Working together with his friend Leo as a waiter in a dining car, Simone discovers that Silvia, a girl with whom he had a casual relationship, is pregnant and wants to keep the baby.

A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Eva is 19 years old and lives in a small town. One night she causes an accident in which a woman loses her life. Eva, terrified, runs away and no one learns of the dynamics of the accident, not even Bruno, a 45-year-old French man who is the victim's husband. Overcome with guilt, Eva begins to date Bruno while hiding her true identity from him, in a relationship that will lead them to free themselves from their suffering.

A portrait of the flaws and peculiarities of four type of girls living in different districts of Rome.

Mauro, a young jazz musician living in the Emilia countryside, becomes the victim of a serious accident. At his bedside arrives Lucia, his twin sister, an astronomer based in Rome. Through a telepathic bond with her brother, she senses that it wasn’t an ordinary crash.

The goddess of love, Aphrodite, opens the tragedy and the goddess of hunting, Artemis, concludes it, but at the center of Euripides' “Hippolytus, Bearer of the Crown” (428 BC) are not the gods, but rather Phaedra's absolute, consuming human passion for her stepson, Hippolytus. Phaedra hides her love and wastes away.