Plot

Features a series of brief comic shetches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.

A series of comic sketches revolving around the "mania" in people's deepest personality. In "The Elaboration", a hearse driver has his favorite hearse made out to perfection for his "clients". In "Sport" a bossy office supervisor loses a sports bet to co-workers and is forced to pimp out his wife, while one colleague decides to take advantage of it. In "Overtaking" a man tries to outrun a set of lights on a highway late at night... not realizing that it's an airplane. In "The Hobby" two best friends, Barbara and Carla, team up to find where one's husband is going to every weekend and being secretive about it. In "Advice" a bickering couple out for a drive bicker about one's well being which leads to a traffic accident. In "The Protest", Pasquale and Mario are two men who cannot seem to pass up every attempt to protest against the government from 1943 to present day 1964. In "The Antique", a couple travels to a remote monastery to shop for antiques and seek which ones to buy or leave. In "The Swear Word" Ilario Boietti is a writer who seeks advice about work for his latest book by consulting with a brash has-been author, who advices Boietti to embrace his wild side. In "The Strip-Tease" a lonely Lothario ventures to strip clubs in search of his true carnal pleasures. In "The Interviews", Micozzi is a government spin doctor who spins his tails to avoid the questions of government corruption. In "Hitchhiking", the thoughts of a off-duty policeman and a Sicilian hitchhiker whom he picks up, are displayed in this collision of cultures tale. In "Bill of Exchange" two couples, the Brugrolis and the Bonfanls, seek to out-spend the other in a war of wealth. In the final hilarious tale, "The Weekend", two thieves, Franco and Ciccio, break into a mansion to rob it thinking that the owners are out of town, only to have the unfaithful wife with her soldier lover, and the unfaithful husband with his foreign mistress, arrive wanting to spend time alone, and all parties try to avoid direct contact with the other.—matt-282

This is a film with 13 short parts involving the comic manias of ordinary and everyday people who live in and around Rome.

"L'eleborazione" (Processing)

A man visits a car dealership office to purchase some new trim and design for his vehicle that he drives every day. The driver is obsessed that his vehicle "passengers" get the ultimate driving comfort. The driver is a hearse driver.

"Lo sport" (Sport)

Giulio Errani, a bullying office manager, loses a bet with some friends and must put his wife to work on the streets as a prostitute. When one of his employees finds out, he uses the knowledge to turns the tables at work the next day.

"Il sorpasso" (Overtaking)

A motorist obsessed with other drivers speeding on the local streets, refuses to allow a car to overtake him and his ends up driving more manically then anyone else which leads to him getting pulled over by a local traffic policeman and receiving a speeding ticket.

"L'hobby" (The Hobby)

Barbara becomes anxious that her wealthy husband, Enrico, has another woman in his life even though she already knows and accepts his 'secret' lover Carla. When Barbara and Carla follow Enrico one day, they find out that his 'secret' is actually playing with a minor league soccer team.

"I consigli" (Councils)

A married couple argue and wrangle constantly while driving, leading to them getting into a minor traffic accident.

"La protesta" (The Protest)

Mario and Pasquale are two best friends, whom we see living over the years in different historical periods (the 1920s, 1930s, World War II, etc). In each period, they express dissatisfaction with the status quo but never lift a finger to change anything, instead repeatedly backing down and kow-towing to authority.

"Il pezzo" (The Antique Item)

A couple obsessed with buying rustic antiques travel to a monastery and clear it of its rough-hewn furniture, paying vast amounts of money. The monks play along, and then telephone for more cheap tat to take the place of their "priceless antiques".

"La parolaccia (The Word)

A writer is having difficulty with writing his first novel. He visits a successful author who advises him to dredge his imagination for the steamiest and most depraved fantasies. When the writer finished his new novel, he presents it to a major literacy society for whom the established author is a patron: he savages the work and humiliates the writer. Shortly afterword, the established author (having used his position to manipulate and destroy the writer's work and reputation) begins to write his own novel.

"Lo strip" (The Strip)

A man obsessed with strippers watches them identity, but his reasons are not so straightforward....

"Le interviste" (Interviews)

A career politician finds that the same evasion and vague non-answers about policies work in all situations for his political career.

"L'autostop" (Hitchhiking)

A poor Southern Italian worker hitches a ride with an affluent Milanese businessman who is driving to Rome. In the course of the journey, although neither one of them says or does anything wrong, they both become increasingly paranoid and hostile to each other... leading to both of them abandoning the car.

"La cambiale" (The Promissory Note)

Two bourgeois couples become obsessed with appearing wealthier than each other, but the only way they can keep up the race is to sink deeper and deeper into debt.

"La comica finale: Il weekend" (The Final Joke: The Weekend)

Two dim-witted thieves, named Franco and Ciccio, break into a country mansion to rob it thinking that the owners are away. However, the place is soon buzzing with activity as the woman of the house sneaks back in with her Army lover, and the husband returns with his English mistress, forcing the burglars to hide in increasingly hilarious situations. At the end, Franco and Ciccio slip away, but empty handed. They decide to rob the next building down the road.... unaware that it is a police station.