Plot Summary for
Le Amiche (1955) More at IMDbPro »Le amiche (original title)

Clelia comes from Rome to her native Turin, to set up a new fashion salon. On her first night, the woman in the next room of her hotel takes an overdose of pills. Clelia becomes involved with this woman, Rosetta, and three of her rich women friends, Momina, Nene, and Mariella. Momina is older than the others, and lives apart from her husband. Her current lover is Cesare, the architect of Clelia's salon. Nene is a talented ceramics artist, and lives with her fiance, the painter Lorenzo. Mariella is a flighty woman only interested in having a good time. Clelia becomes attached to Carlo, the architect's assistant, but the other women look down on him as he comes from a working class background. Momina, with the help of Clelia, discovers that Rosetta fell in love with Lorenzo as he was painting her portrait. Momina then encourages Rosetta to go after Lorenzo, even though he and Nene were supposed to marry soon. Written by Will Gilbert

While in Turin for the opening and managing of a branch of a fashion salon from Roma, the elegant Clelia finds the young Rosetta Savone near death on the next room of her hotel after taking an overdose of sleeping pills trying to commit suicide. Clelia, who is alone in her hometown Turin, befriends Rosetta and her wealthy friends Momina De Stefani, who is separated from her husband and easily replaces lovers; Nene, a talented artist in ascension in her career married to the frustrated painter Lorenzo that envies the success of his wife; and the futile Mariella. Meanwhile, Clelia feels attracted by Carlo, the assistant of the salon's architect Cesare Pedoni, but he belongs to the working class living in a different social reality. When Momina and Clelia discover that the reason why Rosetta tried to commit suicide is because she felt in love for Lorenzo, the cynical Momina encourages Rosetta to stay with Lorenzo with tragic consequences. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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