Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace prize winner, is known in the whole world as the banker of the poor, because he pioneered and tested a funding system in Bangladesh: by lending little sums of money to the less well-off with no interest, and returning it by installments gained with their work, people are able to get free from extreme misery. Thus, what can happen if three boys, just graduated, who live in Naples, try to import this funding system that subverts every economic rule?
Esta é a história de Maria, uma típica mãe italiana que vive em uma casa antiga na costa Amalfitana. Para resgatar o passado, Maria tenta reunir sua família: seu marido, um pescador e ex-jornalista que está vivendo num barco desde a ultima briga, e seus três filhos, que deixaram a casa dos gerânios e seguiram suas vidas. Todos se reencontram para a festa com muitos medos e poucas esperanças, e tentam trazer de volta à vida as doces e cômicas memórias do passado.
No início do século, na Itália, a rica mulher Francesca (Loren), adota uma menina pobre chamada Nunziata. Os anos passam, Nunziata se apaixona Federico (Bova), seu irmão adotivo, filho de Francesca.
On his death bed in the 1820s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by remembering his younger days, when he was allowed to go hunting and have fun, and inventing love games. Then he was obliged to marry Mary Caroline of Austria, daughter of Empress Mary Theresa, in a political marriage: unexpectedly, they became happy lovers, until court power games divided them, and a different historical season arrived.
