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.
Шесть новелл, рисующих несколько комичных ситуаций: во время венчания молодой пары в церковь приезжают два маляра-недотепы и переворачивают все вверх дном; два автомеханика портят жизнь владельцам авто своими выкрутасами; парочка коммивояжеров предлагают товар хозяину гостиницы, а в результате вынуждены возмещать причиненный ими ущерб; в похоронном бюро служащие приводят в состояние полной прострации родственников покойных; в выходной день приятели устраивают переполох на пляже; два дружка на свое несчастье оказываются двойниками настоящих мафиози…
