Paola Pace

Dünya, ülkelerin arasındaki politik çıkmazlar sebebiyle büyük bir savaşın gölgesindedir. Bu dünyada gençliğine ulaşmaya çabalayan bir çocuk ise kasabalarına gelen, güzeller güzeli bir genç kadın olan Malena'nın etkisiyle kendi erkek kimliğini bulmak üzeredir. Malena, tüm güzelliğiyle faşist bir İtalyan kasabasını derinden etkilemektedir. Bütün kasabayı birbirine düşürecek olan genç, seksi ve dul kadın, bu kasabanın hem başlangıcı hem de sonu olmak üzeredir.

Roma, 1980'ler. Yazar Goliarda Sapienza, on yıldır üzerinde çalıştığı başyapıtı "Neşe Sanatı" İtalyan yayın dünyası tarafından reddedildikten sonra, ona itibarını ve sosyal konumunu kaybettiren umutsuz bir hırsızlık yapar. İtalya'nın en büyük kadın hapishanesine atılan yazar, burada hırsızlar, bağımlılar, seks işçileri ve devrimcilerle birlikte yaşamaya başlar. Serbest kaldıktan sonra bu kadınlarla görüşmeye devam eder ve kavurucu bir yaz boyunca hayatını değiştirecek bir ilişki filizlenir - bu ilişki onun yaşama ve yazma arzusunu yeniden alevlendirecektir.

Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.

Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teachers, a couple in the middle of their divorce, will fight to impose the best way to make Alex a promising student.

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.

Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients...

Born on the 1st of January 1900 in a poor family in rural Sicily, Modesta pursues happiness since her childhood without falling victim to the constraints of society. After a tragic event that takes her away from her family, Modesta is welcomed into a monastery, where she becomes the Mother Superior’s protégé thanks to her intelligence and stubbornness. Later, she arrives at the villa belonging to the Princess of Brandiforti, where she makes herself indispensable. This relentless process of emancipation goes along with a journey of personal growth and sexual awakening, which lead her to discover and claim the right to pleasure and happiness.