PLOT

Many destinies meet at a soccer game between the teams of Rome and Naples. An ex-soccer player sees his plan to become a trainer dashed and is only barely able to save his marriage. A poor pensioner draws a winning thirteen at Totocalcio, the soccer pool, but then sees the result changed to a twelve. Maria looks for a job for her fiancé Giulio, who is determined to end the engagement. At the stadium Giulio meets a young widow, who has come from Salemo in search of the lover whose child she is carrying. She is determined to kill him, but Giulio stops her from committing the murder. (Enrico Lancia)
Story from the radio drama of the same name by Vasco Pratolini and Gian Domenico Giagni.