Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

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

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.

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.

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in Mercado 4. He is offered the chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for $100. This sounds like an easy job but it soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted. Víctor and his persecutors find themselves caught up in a crime they know nothing about.

The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.

In Amalfi, a village on the Italian coast, an old man who seems to have strange powers gives Celestino Esposito, the local photographer, a dangerous ability.

Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.