维斯康提那段讲罗密·施奈德扮演的美丽少妇设计向丈夫报仇，冒充他情妇，让他花钱才能得到她；德西卡的那段讲一个胆小的人赢得一个奖，奖品是跟一个女孩的约会；莫尼切里那段在很多海外版本中均被删除，其风格比较偏传统喜剧，较低调，容易消失在同行的阴影里；但最为出彩的还是费里尼的那段，名为《安东尼博士的诱惑》，讲一个波霸美女从海报上“活”过来，取笑一个道貌岸然的禁欲男子。　　幕后制作：　　四位重量级意大利导演用各自的手法捕捉薄伽丘的精神，以罗马为舞台呈现大型世像图。虽然只是部短片，但费里尼却以轻松嘲讽但不失沉重的语气来讲述这个揭露上层阶级虚伪道德观的故事。安东尼博士是个值得探讨的人物，他面对价值崩溃、道德沦丧感到无能为力，妄图以虚伪的面具来掩盖自己内心的欲望，但当巨大的女郎形象从广告中走出与他同乐时，他的本性终于显露。费里尼用梦幻与现实交错的手法同时制造出荒诞与沉重两种调子，极具表现力，在本片中给人印象最为深刻。

This is an interesting yet bizarre little tale of a fictional (as far as I know, anyway) experiment performed during the Stalin-controlled years in the USSR. The main character is changed from a woman into a man. This is part of a larger plan to change more women into men and have a stronger work-forcearmy, etc. It's a very in-depth character study of the main character, who tries to fit into a world that she (now 'he') doesn't really understand, especially since she's now a man ... Stalin dislikes the results of the experiments and has the scientist killed. The main character then goes off to live a life as a simple, unknown everyday Soviet, but is inexplicably drawn into larger and larger schemes (somewhat reminiscent of Forrest Gump in that way). (s)He has run-ins with different important characters, including his ex-boyfriend from his days of being a woman, as well as going on a demented quest for the nurse with whom he possibly fell in love after the operation... However, he is trapped in his life as an important Soviet married man, and in the end makes a huge sacrifice for his country (unwillingly), and the movie goes from there to an ending that is possibly happy, yet still somehow incredibly depressing.

Two young women retreat to a remote holiday home. While one of them undertakes a medical abortion, the other quietly cares for her. A snake slithers around them, unnoticed.