Lino Banfi holds a monologue in a dressing room located in a bathroom , surrounded by more luxurious for some stars of Hollywood mentioned at the beginning ( John Travolta , Bo Derek and Marlon Brando ), but they do not show up.
Rome, early eighties. Pasquale Baudaffi is a prisoner fresh out of jail Roman of Regina Coeli ; to welcome him find his cousin Gaetano, who tries on several occasions to help him to a path of honest reintegration into society; He will offer a variety of work activities as employed by an employment agency and therefore aware of the work with immediate use.
Franco Bracardi (Gaetano) in a frame of film.
From this premise depart a series of scenes; First there is the visit to a newly established dental practice, but Easter still believed to be the brothel that was before, he attended before he was arrested. The scene is full of double meanings between the protagonist, the assistant to the dentist and an engineer with serious dental problems, played by Gigi Reder .
Will be followed by an interview for the post of warden city, which obviously will not be able to spend Easter. The next attempt is as mechanic; as a favor to the owner, a heart condition, Baudaffi agree to stay in his place for a night, convinced by a tempting dinner prepared by the owner's wife.
End up stealing the collective of all cars of the garage as revenge for a group of brothers from Sicily, confident that their only sister "libertine" is over at that garage hidden in some cars. During a test as a waiter, two lovers undecided and marriage crisis will lead to exasperation poor Pasquale, also harassed by the rough ways of the owner of the bar, Mr. Gargiulo.
After this experience bankruptcy cousin Gaetano does it take as a clerk at the job, but here is a director very Catholic and very tolerant towards homosexuals, which ends just to believe gay (after having caught accidently look into a men's room), and then fire him. Later, in lieu of a famous tenor , singer pretends to be a Spanish improvised at a party, where serenade mixing Apulian dialect and pidgin Spanish. Filed this other experience, is hired in a company of electronics, but here you will find a schizophrenic director, Dr. Thomas, and repetitive tasks and alienating.
Now resigned to take the life of a homeless man, Pasquale notice in a newspaper ad for a lost dog, Nero, who eventually found. The discovery gives hope to Baudaffi a large cash reward, but the man get in return only a rough sex with a fat lady aristocratic owner of the dog. The film ends with the intervention of the same Luciano Salce , judging the interpretation of Banfi: the actor is sentenced to be shot by a firing squad, which turns out to be armed with cream cakes.
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