A newsreel from the 1940s shows the efficient work of the medical staff at the new National Public Assistance Service facility, inaugurated on Grau Avenue as part of the government's social welfare plan. It shows an ambulance transporting a patient, the operating room and table, the X-ray room, the treatment area, and the beds for patient care.
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills.
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.
