Alberto (Claudio Bisio), post office director of a smalltown in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia (Angela Finocchiaro), is ready to do such a thing to find the move to Milan. Pretending to be handicapped to rise in the ranking. However, the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a little town in Campania, which into an inhabitant of this north is comparable to some nightmare...