Florence Nightingale

Anna is pregnant and thinks about castrations. Katinka may not be able to become a farmer and wears her bikini in the milking parlor, but grandma's tomatoes have turned out better this year than ever before. A summer on dying German farms.

Mattia, an almost eighteen-year-old boy, just out of the reformatory, is with his mother, Gabriella with the principal of the it.i.s. G. Armellini, the school the boy attends. Mattia was caught by some plainclothes policemen with a large quantity of drugs that he also used to sell at school. The principal, out of pity for his mother, an honest woman, managed through his old acquaintances to leave the boy with a clean criminal record and to convert Mattia's sentence into social services: cleaning both at the school, where he studies, and in a cancer hospital whose patients are his peers who are fighting against cancer. In the hospital he will discover love with Alessia, a terminally ill girl. Unfortunately for him and Francesco, his dirty partner and business partner, the troubles aren't over: the boss wants back the drug money that was seized from Mattia. So the two friends, Mattia and Francesco, frightened, look for a solution to be able to scrape together some money to pay off the debt, and the only solution they can find is to snatch Ilary, a classmate of theirs who they have discovered is a baby call. The story is set in a school in the Roman suburbs where some students, not having solid families, live by their wits and in order to scrape together some money to survive, they enter into larger circles than themselves, putting themselves at the service of local gangs who use them to drug dealing and prostitution. The street will be their teacher of life, often cruel because it easily deceives them with money.

Isabel is being admitted in a closed institution for juvenile girls. After a fighting incident, where she ends up in solitary confinement, Isabel promises to change herself. But to be able to handle the future, she has to confront her past.

Hasu is a young, innocent village boy. He has none to be called as family in this world. That's why he has made all the villagers his family members. Hasu's life revolve around, love of his life-Kajol and his childhood friend-Anis. When finally Hasu is going to be settled and live happily ever after with Kajol, life takes an unexpected turn and everything falls apart. When Hasu's love and friendship are at stake, what will Hasu do?

The protagonist, Rahul, is an aspiring film maker but he does not have a good script nor the money needed to invest in making a movie. That's when his childhood friend steps in and mortgages his restaurant to come up with the money and claims that he is doing it for himself, for he believes in the capability of Rahul, and wants his own name to become immortal. Rahul is the son of a 1950's film director and his keep; his father also has a "legal" family which knows about the existence of Rahul and his mother and detest them to no end. Every time Rahul goes to their house to get some money, he is ridiculed by everyone in that household, including his father's mother and his lawfully wedded wife. His father, though, cares more for Rahul's mother than his own wife. Rahul also has a girlfriend who is very supportive of him and who eventually marries him. While Rahul is struggling to make his film and is short on money, every small gesture to fulfill his needs - like smoking - by his working wife flusters him, and the husband and wife have squabbles. When Rahul eventually completes his film, he is very disillusioned since it does not rise up to his expectations. That's when his friend suggests that a film successful film is that which is based on one's own trials and tribulations in life. This provides the necessary spark for Rahul and he starts scripting a new story based on his own life which revolves around his own illegitimate birth, his mother who worked as an extra in his father's films, his father's other family, and the other people associated with him. This story line prompts his father to file a lawsuit against Rahul for personal defamation. When the premier of the film is announced, Rahul is very desirous of his father coming to it even though there is a pending lawsuit against him. The last scene is the Award ceremony where Rahul's film Janam is announced the best film and when Rahul comes to the stage to receive his award he requests that the award be given to him by his father who is sitting in the audience. When his father comes up to the stage to give Rahul the award, he is filled with pride, and he says that this win is akin to when a horse wins a race, the people applaud the jockey, but the horse thinks that the claps are for him. On this note the movie ends whereby the Rahul, his mother, and his father are united even if for an ephemeral moment.