Massimiliano Franciosa

On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."

A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secretly wanted to do for years.

Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.

Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.

Researcher Irene Colli rose to prominence for disclosing the genetic sequence of the avian flu virus. She is accused of giving the virus to pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine. Overwhelmed by the media hype of the journalistic investigation, Irene resigns from her position as a member of parliament and returns to work abroad before the end of the trial.

Rapporti Impropri: After the death of her mother, Silvia, a sexually jaunty 16-year-old girl, is welcomed for a certain period by her uncle Carlo where as a child she spent the summer holidays and of which she is always secretly in love. Silvia's goal is to be accepted and ready to do anything, even to seduce the whole family. Benedetta Transgressione: A young separated couple meets by chance on the terrace of a Roman park. The husband hardly recognizes in the woman's uninhibited and provocative behavior his ex-wife, who, realizing the exciting effect it has on her ex-spouse, even offers him a threesome. Specchio, Specchio Delle Mie Brame: Giulia, Sandro's wife, helping Walter, her husband's brother, to mount a mirror, takes advantage of the situation to betray her narcissistic spouse, too arrogant and taken to notice the affair that takes place practically under his eyes...

Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother.

Luisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of the camorra, that has just discovered that he has been betrayed he decided to break off completely from those he considered his friends. Luisa and Mariano have nothing in common except for a deep sense of the failure they are experiencing and which attracts them to each other. Between the young woman, exploited and disillusioned by an ambitious colleague, and the mature ex-criminal, the spark of friendship is kindled.