A senior sharpshooter decides to run honorable with his program, a mild entrepreneur is tricked with a speech to voters in a television programme, a career woman decides to get into politics, but falling in love with one of his competitors, a communist is deceived in campaign speech by an enemy infiltrator, which is then lynched by the mob once it is detected.

He is the famous Antonio La Trippa, posing in her apartment building in Rome a political program restaurator and conservative, given that in his youth he did his military service in the riflemen.

Of course in his neighborhood and much more in his city no one understands its reformist intentions, let alone his wife and her friend, treated like a fool servant by the householder.

Antonio immediately clear deception to the detriment of Italian voters and so designing a countermove, accepting the proposal to join the sinister group of candidates.

Towards the final scene of the movie Antonio, dejected and still mocked by all of his roommates always condo and by the goalkeeper, angrily destroys all election posters bearing his face.