Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.
Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.
