Suffocated by family life and anxious for change, Gaetano leaves his hometown of Naples to for a trip to Florence. While hitchhiking he gets a lift from a would be suicide who wants to crash his car. He convinces him to go to a clinic where he finds another crazy and depressed guy but, thank God, also a girl called Marta with whom he starts a relationship. In the meantime he finds his repressed aunt, who has a lover that she hides from the family, and his friend Lello arrives, having decided to visit him in Florence. The film was a big hit with the public and won David of Donatello and Silver Ribbon awards.
