Tommaso has become a petty criminal who still lives in his mother's house, a widow, together with his sister Eleonora; while Daniele is a far behind law student, the son of an oppressive Carabinieri colonel, with a relationship to a university assistant, Marcella.

About thirty years later, a random meeting takes place between them, indeed, a clash: one in a hurry because he's late for an interview with the supervisor of the thesis at the university, the other one while he runs away from the police who's chase him by smuggling.

As they are investigating, the only clue that Tommaso and Daniele discover on Barresi is a postcard that arrived a few weeks earlier from a mysterious Calabrian country, San Giovanni in Calice.

In reality, the friar encountered in San Giovanni in Calice is Mimmo Barresi, prey to remorse for his old life, who, after confronting his superior, leaves the convent determined to take on his paternal responsibilities towards his son.

Ficarra & Picone, launched by the small screen in cabaret transmissions such as Zelig and L'ottavo nano, after making his debut in the cinema in 2002 as actors in tired births try the great leap in quality by passing to the direction.