Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

1959 film by Michel Boisrond

Hoping to find a man to take her away from her tiny village, thirtysomething beauty Pina (Sandra Milo) takes out an ad in the personal column—and reels in Adolfo (François Périer), a seemingly charming, urbane city slicker from Rome. With biting humor and poignant human insight, director Antonio Pietrangeli traces twenty-four hours in the lives of these two hopeful lovebirds as they meet for the first time and find that, when it comes to love, reality doesn’t always measure up to fantasy.

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.