A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" but focusing on the disasters caused by oil extractions in their wasteland of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolini film...
Maria Celeste is a widow that lives in a retirement home. She is stingy, unpleasant, solitary and looks down on people. Every Sunday Maria sits alone on the park bench, though she tells everyone that she goes to her son's to cook a lovely meal. But on that Sunday, while dozing on the bench, a young girl places a ten month old baby in her arms and runs away leaving Maria stunned and confused. Finally the girl comes back and they start to know each other. The girl asks Maria to take the baby for a second, crosses the street and a tram hits her. She dies without a reason on a warm summer morning. Maria is alone with the baby. Her Maria Celeste's story begins.
Diego, Fausto y Claudio son tres cuarentones insatisfechos, que huyendo de la ciudad y de sus propias vidas, se juntan en la empresa de abrir un casa de turismo rural. A ellos se les unirá Sergio, un cincuentón comunista, y Elisa, una joven embarazada y a la que le falta un tornillo. Pero su sueño se obstaculizará con la llegada de Vito, un camorrista que viene a cobrar el "pizzo".
En su pueblo de Puglia, Federico y Riccardo han sido mejores amigos desde la infancia. Federico es un playboy sin un centavo, mientras que Riccardo es un joven diseñador de moda. Para perseguir su sueño, Riccardo cambia su casa por Milán. Cuando Frederick descubre que la región de Puglia proporciona fondos para apoyar las actividades comerciales, convence a Riccardo de que regrese y abra una casa de moda. Pero hay un problema: la financiación solo está disponible para parejas de hecho, por lo que Federico y Riccardo deben fingir ser una pareja gay y contar con la ayuda del editor del periódico local, un periodista y la novia despótica de Richard.
