Giuseppe Grimaldi is a tailor, and has a number of other activities, Gianni makes a good living with bills of exchange. Mario loves all (beautiful) women except his wife Lisa who, however, has the money and has a son, Giorgino. Renzino has a lover and a daughter, but does not disdain other adventures. It is a group of forty-year-olds who spend their lives doing small hours in search of easy and superficial adventures among Achille's continuous jokes. And between Rome, Sabaudia and Paris intertwining of money and women, while the children seem wiser than they are.