Mi hermano Esopo (Historia de un Mateo)

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.

After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites with the woman he loved and this time she will confess her love for him. The woman's husband will begin to suspect something.

The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.

A married man hides from his family that he has a black son, which causes a true tragedy.

Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.

A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.

Filomena, a former prostitute in her 40s, tricks a wealthy shopkeeper to marry her and support her three children.

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.

A woman becomes delusional and fails to recognize her husband. She will fall in love with the doctor who is supposed to cure her, believing he is her real husband.

Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.

A man finances the invention of a friend overshadowed and dominated by the women of his family.

An unsuccessful actor wants to get money from his uncle to mount a play, and seeks a woman and a child to make them look like his wife and son.

The director of a murga falls ill with poliomyelitis and to help him the members donate the money they earned.

The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.

After running over a young man with her car, a girl is forced to kiss him for 30 seconds, in order not to pay the expensive fine.