Roma, ore 11

Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.

Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

อันโตนิโอ และลูกชาย บรูโน่ ได้ออกทำงานด้วยความหวังที่จะลืมตาอ้าปากได้ แต่ทว่าเพียงเริ่มงานวันแรก จักรยานของอันโตนิโอก็ถูกขโมยไปทันที เขาออกตามหาและขอความช่วยเหลือจากเพื่อน ๆ หลายคน แต่ก็ไม่มีร่องรอย กลับกันอันโตนิโอและบรูโนกลับถูกสังคมทำร้าย ทั้ง ๆ ที่เขาไม่ใช่คนพิการทุพพลภาพ ไม่เคยทำความดีงามให้ปรากฏ หรือสังคมไม่เคยติดหนี้เขา เขาเป็นเพียงคนธรรมดา ๆ ที่ไม่เคยเรียกร้องความเห็นใจจากสังคม เพราะรู้ตัวดีว่าไม่อาจทำเช่นนั้นได้หรือทำไปแล้วก็ไม่ได้ผล แต่เมื่อเขาประสบชะตากรรรม สังคมกลับไม่แยแสเขา

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.