В Риме кассамортари — это люди, которые работают в похоронном бизнесе. Агентство семьи Пасти было основано Джузеппе, который готов на всё, чтобы превратить труп в деньги, желательно в чёрном цвете.
Carlo breaks up with his girlfriend and takes refuge in the house of Gigi and Alice Fumagalli, who has just left her job to be a homewife without telling her husband.
Gigi and Alice are married when they rear-end a young couple: she's about to give birth so Gigi and Alice take them to the hospital and then find out the young couple don't have a lot of money so they decide to help them financially.
Christmas is coming and the Mantelli family is ready to spend it together but Alice, mother and wife, is afraid her marriage could end because the spouses are too deep into their routines so she decides they should go on a vacation.
