A cult classic featuring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. Mimì, a man from Catania, is fired because of his political beliefs. With the help of the mafia, he finds work as a metalworker in a factory in Turin, far from his young wife. In Turin, he becomes the lover of Fiore, a woman who bears him a child. When he returns home and discovers that his wife is pregnant by a brigadier, he seduces the brigadier’s wife in revenge, but things become irreparably complicated.