Maria Pia Trepaoli

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

A mysterious woman takes her daughter on vacation after they've been separated for several months. There, she meets some of the richest and most eccentric people, who are hiding just as much as she is.

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

A man and his girlfriend struggle to find some time for themselves.

A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.