In the first, Aurora, a young woman is married to a very rich man who is never at home and allows her to live comfortably as a "maintained".

His only amusement is to help a local priest, singing and irreverent; but soon her husband is arrested for fraud and she, who had had to renounce true love to choose this type of life, will see the house robbed by her ex "Pistoletta", a bricklayer, to whom she had asked for help.

In the second, Carmela, an adolescent ephebic leaves the reformatory and returns to live with his mother in the lower area where he was born.

In the third and final episode, Libera, a newsagent who lives from her modest job, discovers her husband's betrayals.

With the help of a prostitute friend of hers who introduces him into the house as a maid, she films the cheating spouse with a hidden video camera with the intention of denouncing him.