Alberto (Claudio Bisio), postoffice manager of a small town in Brianza, under some great pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is prepared to do such a thing to get the move to Milan. Faking to be handicapped to rise in the ranking. However, the trick does not work so that as punishment, he is moved in a small town in Campania, which to a inhabitant of the north is equivalent to some nightmare...