We are on the outskirts of Milan, where for thirty years the mild-mannered accountant Torquato, Sicilian by origin, who works in a company where the office manager and other employees never take him into consideration at best and despise him at worst.

Not without difficulty, he asked for the holidays due to the company, and made his family believe that he was traveling for business; at the last moment he buys a ticket to Capri and on the train he gives in to the flattery of a charming woman not suspecting that she is actually a thief.

Having freed himself of their company, he goes around Rome in search of some relative of his who could possibly host him, but everything turns out to be in vain; he is therefore forced to spend the night in a convent room, and there a sort of religious vocation makes its way into his soul, while in the Lombard capital his family members, anxious for not having received phone calls, turn to the Commissariat in the hope of track it down.

The friars of the convent discover at the same moment that Torquato's sudden vocation is not sincere; the clerk, repenting the crazy thought of him, buys a toy he had long promised to his son and leaves for Milan without knowing that his wife is about to join him in Rome.

The man, distraught, asks God for forgiveness and, just when his wife returns out of breath, the miracle occurs with the healing of the son.