A host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.

Rosina, a beautiful and naive girl from Abruzzo, is sent to Rome for services, but her assiduous lover is violent, unleashing the anger of her daring boyfriend, Sandrone.

1940 film by Corrado D'Errico

1942 film directed by Gennaro Righelli

Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station in Milan. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.

Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.