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Three stories in one movie, each story in a different timeperiod, with the same characters in each episode. Stories revolve around the theme of working women, trying to balance their working life with their familylife and the seemingly impossibilities. Stories have been told before in better ways. Nothing new, no new viewpoints, just middle of the road fare.

Pane e Tulipani is about a woman, who lives the ordinary life of the middle-of-the-road Italian housewife, with a stereotypical Italian husband, always talking, macho, etc. The family is on a daytrip by bus, when the wife suddenly discovers that the bus has left without her. There she is, standing alone in a restaurant along the motorway. She then decides to go home alone, asking passing drivers to take her with them. On the road she decides to do something adventurous and go for one day to Venice, a city she's never been to. She hires a room in a pension and then finds that she loves to be alone, without family. She gets a job and a room to stay, in the house of a lonely waiter (with a terrible secret, it seems). She discovers the joys of life and love, makes new friends, and starts all over again. This movie is full of joy, color, fun. It's alive and bubbling and deserves to be seen by the great masses. The characters are exceptionally well played and the plot is full of surprises and laughs. See it if it's near you!!!