Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother.
Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam. the other will find in Ho Chi Minh a new myth to be inspired.
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
