Bonifazi is an honest district attorney entrusted with investigating the strange death of a pretty young girl. Embroiled in this case is an important industrialist, who used the girl in a shady deal, and Bonifazi will do anything to trap him despite evidence which proves the suspect’s innocence.

Centering on a battle of wits between Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, two giants of Italian cinema, Dino Risi’s acerbic masterpiece is commedia all’italiana at its finest. Juggling polar opposite ideologies, this delicious cat-and-mouse game exposes the turbulent state of politics in 1970s Italy.