Shopgirls

5.7

1999•1h 30m

Six very different people - Marta, Roberta, Fiorenza, Paola, Lucia and Romeo - work together in an elegant fashion boutique in the centre of Rome. They are all in thrall to the demands of their overbearing manager, Francesca. Each character knows that between the dramas of their own lives, the journeys to and from work, the children to care for, husbands, lovers, and parents, they will find solidarity with their fellow shop workers.

Seasons

12 Episodes • Premiered 1999

In one of the stores of the Jack Norton chain there are serious problems because the turnover does not satisfy the owners. But before closing it, a new manager is sent and manages to reset the fate of the activity. But that is not enough and the central management decides to put an end to the initiative. Marta, Roberta, Fiorenza, Lucia, Paola decide at that point to take over the business by calling it Les Girls.

1. Marta

Marta is married to Giancarlo, an unemployed surveyor, and is the mother of a child with Down syndrome. Hers is a difficult life, made up of sacrifices and disappointments: she tries in every way not to lose heart, even if, having become pregnant for the second time, she will seriously consider having an abortion.

2. Roberta

Roberta is used to long periods of loneliness. She has long been in a relationship with Luca, the former director of the boutique. However, when the latter, sick and about to undergo an operation, decides to return to his wife, Roberta tries to be close to him anyway and in doing so she meets Marco, a young surgeon.

3. Fiorenza

Fiorenza is a single young woman, extremely clumsy and insecure. She lives, dissatisfied, still with her parents, and the monotony of a life all home and work only increases her constant nervousness. With the help of her colleagues she will try to change, starting with her relationship with men.

4. Paola

Paola is ambitious and indefatigable: she studies law and to round off, in addition to working as a clerk, she is a baby-sitter, an actress and a cubist. After an evening at the disco she is raped: she will be able to overcome the trauma thanks to Fiorenza's friendship and the love of Riccardo, whom she met in the store.

5. Romeo

Romeo is homosexual and lives his love affair with the pastry chef Antonio without complexes. However, the years go by and the desire to become a father is always stronger: so, when he finds an abandoned little girl in a dumpster, he does everything to keep her with him, even if in the end he will decide to let her go back with her mother.

6. Francesca

Francesca, the director of the boutique, is an iron woman, but she too hides a terrible pain: her son is a drug addict. In a particularly difficult time, in an attempt to remedy her son's problems, she finds an old flame of his, with whom she re-enters a relationship.