After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly, because he was a fugitive when he left.
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
In a Jesuit secondary school , the headmaster imposes an iron discipline on the unfortunate students.Enter Father Godard who believes in Christian love .