Several episodes involve the numerous people who gather to form a film team and shoot a movie in Cinecittà Studios in Rome: a scriptwriter, a hopeful young actress, ex-revolutionaries of the 1968 riots, now middle-aged, and many more.

Cinecittà... Cinecittà

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.