Luigi Palchetti

The truck driver Antonio strikes a deal with the mother superior of a religious institute: marry the student Olivia, and in return he will be able to buy an inn owned by the nuns.

Based on 1925 Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs, a zoologist finds a way to accelerate embryo growth in chicken eggs to help feed the population after the war. An unfortunate logistical accident makes the country swarmed with dangerous reptiles.