An emancipated restorer restores rare castle frescoes in an ancient village with figures of ancient heroines - and one of them, Penelope, resembles an old woman who has been waiting for the return of her husband and son for forty years, who have supposedly gone to work in America.

A situational comedy from a world of unlimited possibilities, in which a poor taxi driver becomes a consul general, chairman of a motor racing council, and member of the most exclusive clubs within a single hour.

A sociological drama with a detective plot taking place in the period of industry and agriculture collectivization of the 1950s. Peter Lánik, a young lawyer, during a trial finds out that whom he thought to be his father is in fact only his stepfather. Little by little he learns about the tragic life of his parents as well as about the dramatical atmosphere of the forced cooperativization of village farms.

Sir John Falstaff, a bon vivant and womanizer, courts Mrs. Ford one day and Mrs. Page the next. They are cheerful but respectable ladies, so they devise a plan to punish the old rogue and teach him a lesson about his immoral advances and womanizing.