Childhood friends Tommy and Tuppence meet in London after having served in World War I. Recently "demobed", short of money, and with no job prospects, they decide to become adventurers for hire. Soon, they are employed by
When prostitution is banned in 1958 and an Italian brothel has to close, four prostitutes open a country inn together. However, their integration into bourgeois society fails - Adua, Lolita, Marilina and Milly soon discover that they cannot leave the past