In Naples in 1942 people are in crisis due to the Second World War. Gennaro has a café and hopes that the family will help him in the work so that it can settle down. His wife is engaged in the Black Market to keep going and one thing leads to another. His son Amedeo, however, imagines revolutions and the redemption of the poor people. Peppe is killed in a tragic accident while being arrested during street violence an event which does not happen in the play. The family Gennaro mysteriously enters into crisis and among various adventures and other sad situations Pasquale enters the scene, a family member believed to be dead. The member is Pasquale was not in the original stage comedy but was a part written deliberately for the actor Toto.