职场新人林晨的午餐屡遭老员工李秀兰偷吃与恶意破坏，HR主管王梦更恃权包庇。为反击，林晨特制加入合法“死神辣椒”提取物的午餐，并贴上极其醒目的警告标签。李秀兰无视警告撕毁标签强行偷吃，导致生病入院。事发后，李秀兰家属大闹公司，王梦借机施压逼迫林晨妥协。林晨果断报警，当众放出监控录像与王梦亲口确认“后果自负”的免责录音作为铁证。

实习生江辰每天带饭，却遭老员工张姐反复偷吃，主管还护短劝他“吃亏是福”。他忍无可忍，用辣椒做了一份“特别午餐”，张姐偷吃后被辣，其丈夫带人上门要说法，江辰一个电话调来人员清场，当众亮出盛安集团总裁身份。原来他只想安静实习，奈何总有人让他摊牌。免费的午餐最烫嘴，别把老实人逼急了。

工厂新人苏晴的午饭屡次被工友李刚偷偷吃掉，她向主管王强求助，可王强却选择包庇李刚，一味劝说苏晴息事宁人。苏晴无奈在餐盒贴上警示标签加以防备，但李刚依旧无视提醒继续偷吃，结果被餐盒内高浓度辣椒素灼伤食道。事后李刚的家属跑到工厂闹事，借机向苏晴敲诈索赔。苏晴拿出提前留存的录音、录像证据选择报警。事件尘埃落定，李刚与徇私偏袒下属的王强双双遭到开除，前来闹事敲诈的家属被拘留，苏晴凭借自身工作能力，得到工厂的提拔重用。

许静曾是调查记者，如今在小镇经营驿站。一批到付件全是社区关怀礼包，收件人都是独居老人，她察觉有诈。马经理伪装热情，邻居王淑兰不信她，物业也贴出整改提醒。许静扛下误解，暗中查证，发现空壳公司即将注销，老人的钱眼看就要追不回来。她在广场上当众亮出工商记录与案底，逼得骗子撕破脸，也让老人们看清了真相。

秋前夕，班级群放出免费秋令营福利，众人争相报名。朵朵妈察觉福利蹊跷，拒绝报名反遭家长非议，只能假意应允，集合时拦下自家孩子。很快老师告知大家手机被盗，发消息的是骗子，不少孩子已被带走。慌乱的家长还误会朵朵妈，她冷静记下涉事车辆特征协助搜寻。风波过后众人醒悟，世上没有免费馅饼，盲目跟风与偏见容易惹祸。

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七年，我免费送楼上祖孙早餐。她们赊账不还，反举报我占道，来查的正是她外甥女。摊子被封，她冷言“苍蝇不叮无缝蛋”。我不争辩，将七年账本、监控、录音发到网上：“欠款结清，道歉公开。”她慌了，带孙女跪求原谅。我指新招牌：“本店不赊账，不免费，不接受道德绑架。”包子软，规矩硬。

Enzo returns to Genoa after a lengthy absence. He crosses the city in search of places he remembers from before but they have been inexorably changed by passing time. He finds Mary waiting for him at the small house in the ghetto of the old city. His life-long companion, she has been waiting for Enzo to return from the prison where he was serving time. “I didn’t know Genoa well before making the film. My only memories of the city were stories that my father used to tell me. He was a sailor from southern Italy and he would make port calls there. Throughout his entire youth Genoa was his ideal city. He would always tell me how beautiful it was, about the places where he would eat tripe and about the sky. I saw a different Genoa that is full of blind alleys, where – like most of the cities in the North – the social fabric is disappearing and memory is impressed in the stones of Sottoripa. I tried to show the present situation around me, while the nostalgia for the twentieth century is represented by archive footage, clips from amateur and professional movies, made by the people of Genoa a long time ago.”

A bumbling pants presser at an upscale hotel's valet service nurses an unrequited crush on a Broadway star. He gets more than he bargained for when she agrees to marry him, to spite her womanizing fiance, and encounters Nazi saboteurs.