Judy Canova works in a hotel for her domineering aunt. Her unscrupulous relatives try to blackmail and dupe her into selling her apparently worthless farm, having been led to believe that it has enormous potential value by a couple of confidence tricksters.
Schlüter, un millionnaire geheimerrater excentrique et débonnaire, veut étudier les gens. Il participe sous le nom de Schulze au grand concours qu'organise sa société qui porte son nom. Schulze remporte le second prix : un séjour de dix jours au Grand Hôtel à Bruckbeuren dans les Alpes. Schlüter y va déguisé en pauvre homme pour voir comment on réagit face à un tel homme dans cet environnement. Il est accompagné de Johann, son majordome, qui jouera un riche armateur et fera mine de ne pas le reconnaître.
Commendatore Aristide Paoloni is a man all of a piece, strong and brave, who prides himself on saving lives. His specialty is to avoid drowning suicides that are thrown into the Tiber from the Milvian Bridge in Rome, and so one day Aristide saves the poor Gennaro. Gennaro, realizing the situation, pretends to Aristide Paoloni a job, but the man ignores him. So, Gennaro begins to disturb the quiet family life of the Commendatore, who soon begins to look for a way to kill the poor Gennaro.
Donald est garde forestier dans un parc national. L'hiver étant arrivé, celui-ci ferme le parc aux visiteurs et les ours vont hiberner. Mais l'un d'eux, dans la précipitation, se retrouve exclu de leur abri hivernal…
In 1922, during Fascism, Antonio La Quaglia accepts the assignment to the station master in a remote town called Piovarolo, because that's where it always rains. Antonio soon realizes that life in the small village is sad, because the inhabitants are all old, deluded, dying, without hope. Antonio so hopefully he will be moved to a larger city; but the years pass and Antonio helds the same job. One day he sees off the train a beautiful lady, who does the primary school teacher. Soon the two get married and start a family, but always Antonio wants to get away from Piovarolo, but politics and the ministry do not care at all about him.
Alberto Santi is a young lawyer who, although love his wife, often longingly thinks to his bachelor life. While his wife has gone to Rome for a conference of Catholic Women, a beautiful stranger named Bianca Maria suddenly swoops in his house, initiating a series of misunderstandings.