Sei tu l'amore

As Roger, Raffaele and Claude, three wealthy Italian men, play cards with their girlfriends, James, the butler, and his wife Placida inform them that the girl from the top floor, Giorgina, has attempted suicide. Giorgina is an orphan who works for a dressmaker, and upon waking she tells the group her sorrowful story: She dreamed that she shot and killed an unfaithful lover and his new girlfriend. In her dream she ran away across the rooftops and then grabbed an electric wire. Upon awakening, she discovered that the wire was actually a gas pipe and that she was gassing herself. The women are a little disappointed at the story, but the men are intrigued. They leave Giorgina some clothes and four-hundred lire, but the sweet girl only takes fifty, leaving the rest for James and Placida. Dressed up in the clothes left for her, Giorgina looks like a "coquette" when she answers the door and meets Mario, a handsome young painter who has come to the house to pick up the plans which Roger, a successful engineer, has left for him. Mario is nervous about talking to Giorgina because he believes that she must be Roger's mistress, but then discovers that she is the girl from the top floor who almost killed herself. One day, Giorgina leaves the dress shop early for a date with Mario. The young man declares his love, but Giorgina says that she will never again trust any man. Later, Claude, Roger, and Raffaele go to the dress shop where they purchase dresses, hats and other accessories for Giorgina, although she believes that they are for another woman. Giorgiana's shop friends, Rita and Juccia, think that Giorgiana has landed a rich lover, and when the girl realizes that the men have bought the items for her, she insists that men never offer anything to a woman for free. The trio reply that they want nothing in return except Giorgina's promise not to betray "the triumvirate," as they term their group. Later, at a masked party thrown for Giorgina, Claude, Roger, and Raffaele all try to get the young girl's attentions, but she informs them that they must find a more moral solution to the problem of their foursome. Everyone at the party, including Mario, who earlier proposed to Giorgina and was accepted, believes that she is a coquette and will choose one of the three men as her protector. Mario becomes angry, but Giorgina swears that she is innocent, despite appearances. Giorgina's plan all along has been to go into business with the rich men by having them buy her the dress shop. She meets them at the shop to examine the books and tells them that Giorgina and Co. must be reorganized financially and morally, but that the world may continue to believe that she is a coquette, as that is her biggest asset. Mario arrives and apologizes, and Raffaele, Claude and Roger go off to find another attempted suicide to save.