Adaptations of 40 short stories of brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues, written between 1951 and 1961. The stories were considered scandalous at the time as Rodrigues used immoral characters and black humor to satirize the hypocrisy and repression in people’s daily lives.
A salaryman befriends a runaway bethrothed to a Yakuza Boss.
The wife of a good-for-nothing gambler is pushed to trade sex for goods with the village’s husbands. Expectedly, the village wives go up in arms against her.
After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his young wife.
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients, who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart, despite the fact that none of the patients can sing or speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
A handsome serial killer is on the loose, preying on unfaithful wives… and his next victim might just be the wife of the investigator of his case.
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
When her cheating husband has a debilitating stroke, a woman invites her lover to move in with them.
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