Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Cast
Tom Baker
(segment "L'indifferenza")
Julian Beck
Dying Man (segment "Agonia")
Jim Anderson
(segment "Agonia")
Judith Malina
(segment "Agonia")
Giulio Cesare Castello
Priest (segment "Agonia")
Adriano Aprà
Clerk (segment "Agonia")
Fernaldo Di Giammatteo
(segment "Agonia")
Petra Vogt
(segment "Agonia")
Ninetto Davoli
Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
Rochelle Barbini
The Little Girl (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
