A poor, seventeen-year-old Neapolitan girl, determined to get more from life than fate had in store for her, finds new hope when the circus comes to her town.
A thirteen-year-old introvert becomes friends with a confident, independent girl, and they form a bond tied to a shocking secret.
Driven by a strange obsession, the suave bachelor Archibaldo de la Cruz pursues a life of crime while attempting to relive a childhood incident in which he experienced erotic pleasure in the face of death.
After agreeing to testifying against a mafia thug he saw murder a man, Calogero, a slushy pushcart vendor, enters witness protection and is sent to a small town in the Alps. Soon, the killer arrives at the same town when he decides to turn informant.