A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.

A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences

20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge.

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.

An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.