Little Varvarushka disobeys her grandmother and gets lost in the woods, then enters a house in which three bears live. Based on Lev Tolstoy's 1875 version of the English folk tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".
Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.
Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get along.