1947年的罗马，战火仍然在燃烧。男人们雄心壮志地想要重建家园，而在女人心中，重建起家庭则显得更为直接而原始。在罗马的一家医院中，尼娜结识了另外八个与她一样等待生产的孕妇，不同背景不同性格的她们走到了一起。在最开始，她们还是素不相知的陌生人，接着她们开始渐渐熟知，开始动情地叙述起属于各自的过去。故事一个接着一个展开，如同彼此生命的交织绵延。这是一个关于所有女人的故事，团结、友情、温馨在病房弥漫开来。这些曾被伤害但带着希望，曾经牺牲却坚信爱情的女人们忽然发现，她们不再孤单……

Andrea is a twenty-seven years old, with a doctorate, some girl-friends, a lot of hope but no perspective to get out of the rat race that awaits him after his studies. His two best friends are a lazy and quarrelsome person but with a great sense of reality by the name of Bart and Lucia, an Indo-Italian girl with a troubled sentimental life. While Andrea's life moves on, his hopes vanish one by one until one day he meets Dolores and a sudden and passionate love story teach him that anything can happen in life and that things can change. After all it is possible to enter the "adult" world without having to compromise on the essence of life.