[1][2][3] Alberto, publicity manager for a big dairy company, returns home early after crashing into the car of a beautiful woman named Eleonora, only to find his wife in the bath and the plumber hiding naked in the shower.

Another patient is Eleonora, also suicidal after the infidelity of her husband, and the shrink separately advises each of them to get up into the mountains for a rest.

By chance both take a room in the same tiny and remote inn, though Alberto does not recognise the woman with whose car he collided months ago.

In the evenings the landlord pours the grappa liberally and, while Eleonora has got up for some fresh air, a very drunk Alberto creeps into the bed to find a very willing Marisa.

Entwined together and frozen stiff, they are found by a mountain rescue team whose volunteer chaplain marries the unconscious couple in articulo mortis.