El 6 de maig de 1938, Hitler visita Roma. És un dia de festa per a Itàlia feixista, que es consagra a la rebuda. En una casa de veïns només hi queden la portera, una mestressa de casa, Antonietta, i Gabriele, que tem la policia per algun motiu desconegut. Al marge de la celebració política, Antonietta i Gabriele estableixen una relació afectiva molt especial que els permet evadir-se durant unes hores de la tristesa i la monotonia de la vida quotidiana.

Giovanna s'ha casat amb l'Antonio dotze dies abans de l'esclat de la Segona Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Ell no vol anar al capdavant i simula estar boig, però la farsa acaba sent descoberta.

A Nàpols, l'Adelina ha de vendre tabac de contraban per sustentar la seva família. Les multes impagades per exercir aquesta activitat la fan viure sota l'amenaça constant de la presó. A Milà, la rica i voluble Anna fa una escapada amb el seu nou amant en el Rolls-Royce del seu marit. A Roma, la Mara, una prostituta de bon cor, farà una prometença per retornar al bon camí un jove seminarista esgarriat. Tres històries protagonitzades per l'actriu Sophia Loren que mostren la voluntat, decisió i sentit pràctic de la dona italiana davant la debilitat dels homes que l'envolten.

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.

A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart

Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.

Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.

Anna is 13, on the keyboard of the piano she should learn to play are her tricks stolen from her mother. Her meeting with Peppino and Mariuolo will make her to take the step that separates childhood from the future.

A story about a girl, a foreign worker employed at a printing house. A boy and several men long for the girl, but they do not meet even the girl’s low demands. Her current boyfriend (and superior) is cheating on her, her new admirer at work is currently homeless, and the third man is probably a liar.

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both live off their lies and have no intention of stopping now. Next-door neighbors who had never met until the day he wound up on the wrong landing, and nothing would ever be the same. Sheer chance leads this odd couple on a flight towards lost or forgotten places, where their mutual support makes for self-discovery.

En Choya és un pistoler errant que es troba amb en Leffingwell, un malfactor sense escrúpols que li proposa un negoci a mitges: cal que es faci passar pel fill d'un ric ranxer de Texas que va desaparèixer fa 25 anys i de qui no s'ha sabut res de llavors ençà. Per aconseguir aquest propòsit li tatuen una falsa marca de naixement a l'espatlla i Leffingwell li explica un record significatiu de la infància del noi. Aquests dos indicis fan que la família, convençuda que es tracta del fill perdut, el rebi amb un amor i consideració que en Choya mai no ha conegut.

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.

A couple goes on a hike in the woods, and the woman refuses to return.