Marco (Vittorio Gassman) es un agente de prensa que encabeza una delegación italiana que viaja a Buenos Aires para participar en el festival de cine del Mar del Plata. El grupo será recibido por un emigrante italiano que ha hecho fortuna con el comercio de carne vacuna. Pero Marco conocerá también la otra cara de la emigración italiana en Argentina de la mano de un viejo amigo, Stefano (Nino Manfredi).

A gunfighter called "El Rojo" arrives in Gold Hill to avenge his massacred family.

Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.

The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.