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Donatella is a simple and honest Roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner.

Gennarino Esposito and Marcella Pinelli return from their honeymoon, but the respective fathers, Don Mimì and Cesare, renew the contrasts that had placed them facing each other at the time of the engagement between the two young men.

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.

Two girls (a secretary and a musician) disguise themselves as men in order to work for a famous bald actor.

A poor farmer who has struggled to advance his son's career as a lawyer is spurned by the ungrateful offspring when he visits him in the big city, to convey the news that the mother is dying.

During a rainy night a woman puts a little bundle before a convent. It's a baby girl to whom the nuns give the the name Maria. When Maria grows up she marries Salvatore. Soon a new character is introduced in the story, Salvatore's sister, a no gooder, lover of a loan shark who has got her pregnant. Maria tries to convince him to marry her but she only gains Salvatore's distrust who believes her to be the old man's lover. The two now live apart and Maria is pregnant with Salvatore's child. When she delivers the baby she brings him to the convent like her mother did with her and while she prays the Madonna to forgive her her imaginary sin she's joined by her husband who has finally understood she has always loved him.

An honest clerk gets into business with a smuggler and commits an embezzlement to pay for his daughter's (Madunnella) wedding. The smuggler has, however, set his eyes on the girl and blackmails her father about the embezzled money. Madunnella succeeds in getting her father's money back even although she has to withstand a sexual assault. Furious with rage the clerk kills the smuggler and is sent to jail. He will be out, however, in time for his daughter wedding with her legitimate boy-friend.