A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
