[4] Guido, a Milanese who has relocated to Naples, is a somewhat romantic teacher of Italian literature.

Not even the support of his parents Giovanni and Carla and his friend Paolo, a physical education teacher, can lift his morale.

Everything changes when Guido meets his new neighbor, an extremely attractive young woman named Silvia.

Meanwhile, Giada, another neighbor who recently lost her husband, is madly in love with Guido but contents herself with eavesdropping on him through the wall that separates their apartments, rather than approaching him.

Eventually we learn the cause of the many misunderstandings; it turns out that all the while Silvia has just been a figment of Guido's imagination.