Una storia milanese

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

A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.