A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.

Rome, summer 1943. Four children play war while the bombs of real war explode around them. Italo is the rich son of the Federal, Cosimo has his father in confinement and an atavistic hunger, Vanda is an orphan and a believer, Riccardo comes from a wealthy Jewish family. They are different but they don't know it and between them "the greatest friendship in the world" is born, impervious to the divisions of history that bloodies Europe. But on October 16 the Jewish boy is taken away by the Germans together with over a thousand people from the Ghetto. Thanks to Italo's father Federale, the three friends believe they know where he is and, to honor the "spit pact", decide to leave in secret to convince the Germans to free their friend. Yet another imaginative mission becomes reality, the three children travel alone in an Italy exhausted by war, among disbanded soldiers, deserters, occupying German troops, exhausted and hungry populations.

马塞洛（克劳迪奥·比西奥 Claudio Bisio 饰）是一名心理医生，每天，他都要面对一大堆患有各种心理疾病的患者，身为医生，马塞洛耐心的开导他们，不离不弃的带领着他们一步一步走出情绪的深渊，可是在日常生活中，马塞洛自己亦患有抑郁症，常常陷入灰暗的情绪之中，他可以向谁求助呢？
一场意外中，马塞洛被诊断出患有眼疾，面临着失去视力的危险，这巨大的打击加重了马塞洛的抑郁，他决定暂时告别工作岗位，躲起来独自面对难关。在这个节骨眼上，马塞洛曾经帮助过的那些患者们接二连三的站了出来，用行动鼓励和帮助着马塞洛，同时一个名叫萨维娜（安娜·福列塔 Anna Foglietta 饰）的女孩出现在了马塞洛的身边，让他看到了生活的希望。

Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.

阿贝托（Claudio Bisio 克劳迪奥·比西奥 饰）在镇上的邮局里干了一辈子，因为这份工作，他和妻子西尔维娅（安杰拉·菲诺基亚罗 Angela Finocchiaro 饰）之间的关系非常的紧张，西尔维娅希望阿贝托能够再努力努力争取被调到大城市米兰工作，但阿贝托的努力似乎带来了反效果，他不但没有被升职，还遭到了贬值被调到了位于偏僻南方的分部上班。
作为一个北方人，要在南方生活对于阿贝托来说会是一件非常可怕的事情，但很快的他就发现，自己所在的这个男方小镇上的居民们都非常的友好和善良。他甚至在这里交到了朋友马蒂亚（亚历桑德罗·希亚尼 Alessandro Siani 饰），而妻子对于这一切还一无所知。

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.