This film focuses on a family conceived out of wedlock. The mother is determined to rise her children and give them legitimacy in spite of a hostile environment. The father is called to repent his lack of paternal responsibility.

Set in 1946. Filumena had lived with Domenico for 25 years, but was to be thrown over for a younger woman. She pretends to be dying, and tricks him into marriage. When he discovers that the marriage is null and void, she tells him she has three grown sons, one of whom is his, but she will not say which one.

A collection of four contemporary plays by homosexual writers: Playing by the Rules by Rod Dungate; Plague of Innocence by Noel Greig; Snow Orchid by Joe Pintauro; and the George Devine winner Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey.

First full length publication in English about reference sources relating to the filmmaker Vittorio De Sica.

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