Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.

Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.

Nino establishes a club of supporters of Naples, fighting against the violence in the stadiums. But the Camorra hinders its project.

Rosa (Marina Suma) is a low-level worker who decides to quit a nowhere job and turn to prostitution instead, all the while living with a boyfriend who is dealing drugs for his financial support. Entering into the picture is a homosexual friend who wants a child of his own and is willing to donate a good apartment to the couple if Rosa will marry her boyfriend and bear a child. She does get pregnant, but by that time has had it with the constant presence of the homosexual, and is having second thoughts about her pregnancy.