Rosanna Cancellieri

Vito is a bartender from Pegognaga, a small apparently anti-tourist town that in winter is obliterated by the fog and in summer by the heat. As a joke between friends, he ends up getting stuck between two concrete columns placed in front of his bar. However, the joint is so perfect that no one is able to free it anymore. The mayor arrives with the brigade, then the ASL nurses, the firefighters, but there is nothing to be done: Ciccio gets stuck and demolition projects are even made that arouse the terror of the tenants of the building. The only possible evolution of the story is that Ciccio, now known by all as "Cicciocolonna", gets stuck between the columns and becomes "a coincidence". In fact, the TV that spreads the news arrives: Cicciocolonna becomes a point of reference for the whole country. A kind of living monument, but also a sort of essay to which people go to ask for advice and even the numbers to play the lottery.

Gepy Fuxas, présentateur de la télévision de grande réputation mène la transmission "il Étage Italienne"qui mene des repas au public une série de cas humains, traité avec de la superficialité et du cynisme. Pendant un épisode de "Terrasse Italiene" Fuxas interviewe une dame sur les problèmes des handicapés, mais il laisse de côté bien bientôt le sujet qui juge de pas grande prise sur le public, pour mettre en place problèmes douloureux privés de l'hôte.

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.