Mario De Candia

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. (imdb)

Andrea, Maurizio and Sergio are three young men of the Italian province, idlers by profession, lazy, lazy and full of inventiveness, they always manage to get away behind some naive person. Maurizio is engaged to the policewoman Anna, of whom he is very jealous, Sergio still lives with his mother and Andrea is tyrannized by his wife and brother-in-law, a former boxer.