Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, which together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks to have scuppered the plan to capture a secret agent.
An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.
The vicissitudes of Walter – a dissatisfied and disenchanted 20-year-old on-and-off philosophy student without a job, a girlfriend or any real beliefs – who reluctantly returns to his native Turin to live with his irascible blue-collar father and his mother, almost mute due to a severe nervous breakdown.
A seducer finds himself in crisis when his woman makes him believe he has a lover. The search for the suspect rival has the upper hand, with unexpected results.
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.
La película retrata la Italia de los nuevos ricos... La Italia donde una vez la belleza fue de color moreno y pelo negro, y que ahora está invadida por las falsas rubias... En todos los sitios, salones, restaurantes, barcos, playas están llenos de falsas rubias y nos muestran su pseudo-cultura. Tratan desesperadamente de ser lo que no son y sus maneras ridículas y sus actitudes afectadas sólo muestran su enorme vulgaridad. Esta es la Italia de la segunda casa, de los teléfonos en el coche, de los fines de semana, de las criadas filipinas, de los nombres rimbombantes, incluso para perros falderos. Esta es la Italia en que ahora la cultura se aprende en las peluquerías... en resumen, esta película es un feroz retrato de la Italia que está perdiendo su ancestral cultura.
