A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league football club from a long-lost uncle. He decides to visit the club to sell it, but the local population has other ideas: through an almost-armed uprising they "force" him not to sell the club but lead it to other glories on the football field.
