Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.

A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.

1962 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

富商恩里克（Ferdinando Sarmi 饰）雇佣了私家侦探卡洛尼（Gino Rossi 饰）调查妻子宝拉（露西娅·波塞 Lucia Bosé 饰）的行踪。随着侦探调查的深入，宝拉的初恋情人圭多（马西莫·吉洛提 Massimo Girotti 饰）渐渐浮出水面，随着圭多而来的，还有一个隐藏多年的秘密。
原来，圭多曾经的恋人乔伊（Marika Rowsky 饰）亦是宝拉的好友，三人陷入了一场暧昧的三角关系之中。在一场意外中，乔伊不幸去世，而宝拉和圭多也就此分道扬镳。如今，圭多和宝拉重逢，熊熊燃烧的爱火在两人之间死灰复燃。然而，宝拉既放不下如今荣华富贵的生活，却又向往同圭多真挚火热的感情，一时之间，她陷入了两难的选择之中。

1961 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

1960 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.