He loses his work permit when he is caught urinating in public, so he begins to lead a clandestine life in Switzerland.

Intrigued by the sight of a group of blonde Swiss youths bathing in a river, he decides to dye his hair and pass himself off as a local.

In a bar, when openly rooting for the Italy national football team during the broadcast of a match, he is found out as a migrant Italian worker, after celebrating a goal scored by Fabio Capello.

In the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert wrote:Bread and Chocolate is a sneaky comedy that winds up being serious about its subject.

Despondent, he goes into the country to find work on a chicken farm, and the film finds its best and most unforgettable image: a chicken-coop filled with immigrant laborers, who peer with admiration and envy through chicken wire at a crowd of Swiss kids frolicking in a pool.