Two Southern country boys travel north to get work in Milan. Joining the labor movement and a communal home where they meet some love interests, their dreams of wealth devolve into several adventures, from an uproarious attempt at petty crime to the daily indignities of life in a restaurant kitchen.

Lina Wertmüller denounces the demeaning absurdities of life at the bottom of the economic ladder in this raucous dark comedy. Following desperate men and women who find themselves paying a high price for the bare minimum, she excoriates consumerist society and its corrupting effects with bite.