After an understandable moment of discouragement, Margaret is convinced by the English consul of Portofino to continue the journey with her new companions.

When they arrive in Venice, where a count offers them hospitality in his palace, the girls misunderstand the situation and believe they have ended up in an expensive hotel.

During a visit to an artistic site in Bologna (the guide is played by a young Dario Fo) Margaret meets Professor Parenti, whom she met in England, where he had been transferred as a prisoner of war: a feeling of friendship was born between the two, which the girl has not forgotten.

In Florence, Josette meets Sergio, an enterprising and boastful young man, who abandons his mature lover to get together with her.

In the English version, It Happened in Rome, in a scene not included in the Italian version and not dubbed, the Italian love of the English Margaret, the mature professor of History of Art, played by Massimo Girotti finds her on the return plane.