A summer evening, a recently concluded rock concert, three strays in the dark of the night: an immigrant peddler with a valid residence permit expiring, an unemployed anarchist and Leila, a firefly without light. Their story is cut short by the senseless violence of two Nazi skins. But friendship continues to run in a yellow van, emblem of their freedom ... beyond darkness, beyond death.

A group of female students and their lecturer, Nora, camp inside a bomb bunker to do research on the theses they are writing. After being escorted by a sinister-looking janitor, the girls prepare to spend twenty-four hours locked in the bunker. In the middle of the night, two of them disappear without a trace. Nora coordinates the search, but soon the survivors find themselves trapped in a maelstrom of violence at the hands of an anthropophagous.

Carlo Monti is a young man who wants to reveal the secret of his mother's mysterious death which occurred in a strange car accident many years ago. He is an illegitimate son of a late film director. Carlo learns where his father's home was and goes there because he thinks his father was involved in the accident. There he meets Emma, a glamorous young woman, who claims to be Carlo's sister. Carlo is attracted by her beauty but he soon realizes that he has got involved in a dangerous and mysterious affair...

Valerie, a maid of French descent (Monica Seller), comes to work for a family in Saigon of the 1930s/40s. One by one, she seduces the members of the family: the dame de la maison, the widower, young gay sonny with his friend from university, and grandpa.

An upscale couple visit a villa owned by a chick named Rita for some rest and relaxation, but the husband and Rita have other plans... until Rita and the wife come up with OTHER other plans...

Giovanna Dei, a young cartoonist, works on the violent comic strip "Doctor Dark". Unfortunately, young women are being killed in the style of the comic strip character and she becomes the main suspect.

An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings, of their hopes and little acts of cowardice. But it is also the story of a time of waiting, of a soul going around in circles, a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive, marginal context that becomes a character in its own right.