In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
Ricciardetto is a fourteenth-century playboy who wants at all costs to sleep with the wife of the mayor of Montelupone. He succeeds, but is caught between the covers with the woman and sentenced to death. He will be saved by a kind of pilgrim saint who is in love with him.
A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
