Where it was filmed 'We All Loved Each Other So Much'

The film opens at the end of the story, with a panoramic shot of the luxury stone villa where Gianni lives in the residential neighbourhood of Olgiata, north of Rome. A long flashback takes the characters back to the past. A symbolic setting in the story, which run throughout the film, is the Re della mezza porzione where they meet, argue, fall in love and betray each other: the restaurant actually existed in Piazza della Consolazione in 1974.

Antonio, a hospital porter at San Camillo (Istituto San Michele in Piazzale Tosti), meets Luciana and, desperate to go out with her, agrees to accompany her to a play: the exterior of the theatre is Galleria Sciarra, the covered pedestrian pathway in the central Trevi neighbourhood. The relationship works until Gianni arrives and takes Luciana from his friend: the two ride bicycles through the Aventino neighbourhood and happily plan a future together.

In the meantime, Nicola who has lost his teaching job, leaves his wife and son in Nocera Inferiore and moves to Rome where he meets up with his friend Antonio and they discuss the future on Porto di Ripa Grande on the River Tiver near the Monumental Complex of San Michele a Ripa Grande.

On the Spanish Steps in Piazza di Spagna, Nicola and Luciana meet, both a little drunk. However, Luciana has not forgotten Gianni who finds out about the woman’s extreme action when he goes to get his post in the old house near Piazza Caprera, in the Trieste neighbourhood, where is also the Pensione Friuli where Luciana lived. Antonio meets Luciana again when, now an aspiring actress, she is talking to Marcello Mastroianni while Federico Fellini is shooting one of the most famous scenes of La Dolce Vita: Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain. The years go by and a meeting and clarificatory conversation takes place between the two in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, on a bench beneath the statue of St. Francis. Antonio also meets Gianni in Piazza del Popolo years after their fight over Luciana: the hospital porter is convinced that his friend is broke.

The end of the film takes place in Piazza Sauli in the Garbatella neighbourhood, outside a primary school where the four characters meet up again and we find out which of them has made their dreams come true.