Jone Morino

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

The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.

A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.

Giovanni Ferretti leaves his wife and son and sets off in search of fortune abroad. His brother manages to turn around the company's fortunes and secure a future for his nephew Riccardo, who falls in love with Elisabetta, a divorced Hungarian woman who threatens to jeopardize the family unit, but an unexpected encounter with his father, who has returned in miserable condition, convinces him to give up eloping with the woman.

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.