Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.

A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.