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.

You Laugh

The film, taking as its point-of-departure the figure of Antonia Pozzi, a unique and passionate poet in 20th-century Italy, is a reflection on the role of the artist in that era and today.