A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
Walter, vingt-deux ans, apres une adolescence passee a Rome chez sa tante, retroune a contre-coeur dans le giron familial, a Turin. Sans argent et sans espoir, il ne sait que faire de sa vie et observe la societe avec ironie.