Three episodes: 1)The refrigerator aka Il frigorifero: Gavino Puddu and his wife Adele, proletarians Sardinian residents in a modest basement of Turin , have made great sacrifices to pay in installments a huge fridge capacity of 180 liters, of which, because of their poverty, they only serve to cool the tap water and to arouse the admiration and envy of the neighbors. On the day of payment of the last installment, Gavino clumsily loses the money needed to balance. The appliance store does not allow extensions: within the next day or the Puddu will be presented with due, or will be forced to look take away the refrigerator. After trying in every way to put together the sum, not huge but still prohibitively expensive for their budget (9,100 pounds), spouses reflect the ease with which their neighbor, a prostitute would-be masseuse, he manages to get the money, and end to convince himself of the opportunity that Adele, albeit for a single time, prostitutes herself. The two have much hesitation, but all won by fear of losing the refrigerator and the well-being and social affirmation that this is for them. At the end of Adele, fell on the sidewalk, you grant to a customer for 10,000 pounds. The next day, the Puddu occur in the appliance store to settle the debt: finally the refrigerator is owned by them in all respects. Everything is resolved, if it was not in the shop Adele remains enchanted by a modern washing machine ... 2)The room aka La Camera: Hyacinth Column, workers in the steel mills of Terni , aims to celebrate the wedding anniversary with his wife Erminia in a luxury hotel on the Costa Smeralda . The direction of the structure, however, had accepted the book for a misunderstanding, thinking that they were members of the aristocratic Colonna family : in fact all the hotels in the area are frequented exclusively by nobles or billionaires and on principle refuse to accommodate people modest condition, although willing to pay. Hyacinth and Erminia, coolly turned away from the hotel where they had booked, they seek other accommodations, but always without success because their appearance and the way they do not appear compatible with the exclusive environment in which they find themselves. During their wanderings from place to place both spouses are in contact with the environment of high society, totally unknown to them, and can not help but noticing the arrogance, as well as the spread of drugs and perversions of all kinds . Eventually the police confirmed that it is their right to spend at least one night in the hotel where they had booked, the management seems to be resigned to accept them until a very rich and capricciosissima British girl does not claim for himself, without any valid reason, the room assigned to the column. Hyacinth, beside himself, unleashes a brawl involving all present and after the intervention of the police is forced to spend a night in jail. In very exceptional cases to Erminia is given the opportunity to spend the night in jail with her husband in the exclusive Costa Smeralda there is that the prison prepared to offer a twin proletarians. 3)The lion aka Il leone: Giulia, Naples, and Antonio Roman, are secret lovers and meet one day a week in the villa of Castel Gandolfo owned by the principal of him. At the end of one of their meetings are prepared, as usual, to leave as soon as possible to keep up appearances with their families, but a big lion do not know how happened in the garden of the villa terrifies them and prevents them from escaping. During the forced immobility the two, tense for the unusual situation, give vent to various grievances towards each other and end up arguing and insulting fiercely until after the intervention of the police the lion, despite the desperate insistence of the owner of the circus from which he fled, be waived. Antonio and Julia, removed the obstacle which prevented respectable resume their lives everyday, bid goodbye affectionately as if nothing happened.
