Es el retrato de una familia y de una sociedad, napolitana, de sus vicios, sus pequeñeces, sus costumbres; y de las diferencias entre el amor y el matrimonio. El sábado se prepara la gran comida familiar del domingo, Rosa prepara su ragú; el domingo, la comida familiar que incluye una pareja de vecinos, plagada de tensiones, desembocará en una violenta escena de celos de Peppino cuyo absurdo abocará el lunes en un final feliz para todos.
Nino and Anna grow-up as neighbors and song-writing partners. They gradually fall in love, but eventually go there separate ways. Years later, they end up in the same city.
A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
