Laura Toscano
Director
Shopgirls (1999)
Season 1
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.
Released April 11, 1999
Episode 90 min
None+
S1E1 - 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.
April 12, 1999, midnight
S1E2 - 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.
April 19, 1999, midnight
S1E3 - 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.
April 26, 1999, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
May 3, 1999, midnight
S1E5 - 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.
May 10, 1999, midnight
S1E6 - 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.
May 17, 1999, midnight
S1E7 - Episode 7
May 24, 1999, midnight
S1E8 - Episode 8
May 31, 1999, midnight
S1E9 - Episode 9
June 7, 1999, midnight
S1E10 - Episode 10
June 14, 1999, midnight
S1E11 - Episode 11
June 21, 1999, midnight
S1E12 - Episode 12
June 28, 1999, midnight
Rai 1
90 min/ep
90 min
April 11, 1999
May 4, 2002, midnight
Ended
NR
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