Alberto (Claudio Bisio), article office manager of a smalltown in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is prepared to do anything to acquire the move to Milan. Pretending to be handicapped to rise from the ranking. But the key does not work so that as punishment, he is transferred in a little town in Campania, which to a inhabitant of the north is comparable to a nightmare...