[1][2] Aldo Baglio is currently in prison, charged with a counterfeiting crime, and shares his room with his fat cellmate Crapanzano; Giacomo Poretti is an upstanding police officer who dreams of becoming a writer and lives with her sister's family, whose members treat him like an unwanted guest; Giovanni Storti is a children's toy designer who lives with his wife, Elena, who doesn’t seem to love him as much as he does.

During the drive, Aldo accidentally finds a gun in a car drawer and decides to hijack the vehicle.

After a long and dangerous chase, the car falls from a cliff, but somehow they miraculously manage to survive.

The three hitchhike back to Milan, where, after seeing their corpses in three caskets, and thanks to Clara, they realise they actually died in the car crash.

Giovanni finds out that his newly widowed wife has always had an unfaithful relationship with Antonio, while Giacomo discovers that his room has already been rented out and all his possessions, including the book he had been working on for a long time, have been thrown away.