A família Razzi possui uma pequena fábrica de doces em Macerata. Seu desejo de ampliar seus negócios para lidar com o novo mercado europeu unificado os leva a uma série de erros fatais que culminará por acabar com toda sua riqueza.
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.
The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipitous arrival of five beautiful flamenco dancers from Spain.