Rivalità

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.

The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.

A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.