
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.



A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo.

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.



A famous singer is drafted and gets the occasion of getting rid of his annoying girlfriend. He falls in love with a young student who finds out she is a singer herself.






Annina, a rural amateur dramatic actress, comes to the aid of a theater director who has been in a car accident. As a joke, the director invites Annina to perform in his theater in the city, but there she is mistaken for the director's lover, who has recently reconciled with his wife.