In Italy in the 60's it is difficult to get a divorce. Carlo gets a visit from his Swedish wife, but he is already remarried. Every time he meets a new woman, he vanishes away from the last wife.
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
A collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a pornographic film, and a conniving husband.
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Zengin ve sıkıntılı baron Fefè Cefalù, zilli ve genç kuzenine göz koymuştur.
Ancak İtalya'da evliliğin kutsallığı ve Fefè'nin evli bir adam olması sebebiyle, bu gizli tutkunun önü kesilmiştir.
Sonunda baronun aklına müthiş bir fikir gelir: Talepkâr, sekse aç, çekicilikten gayet uzak karısını eski bir sevgilisinin kollarına itecek ve onu zinayla suçlayarak öldürecektir.
Sonunda da mahkemeye çıkıp bir "namus cinayeti" işlediği için yargıcın merhametine güvenerek, tamamen sembolik, hafif bir ceza almayı garantileyecektir.
Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situation to turn around his unsatisfying adult life by going to live in a flat shared with four university students.