He seems to be the one reason for the typically happy and euphoric Neapolitan temperament, which upsets Vesuvia, a lava witch who lives inside the Vesuvius.

To reach her devious goal, Vesuvia sends her clumsy, wannabe-actor servant Vincenzone to Naples, where he dresses up as an American lawyer and gives Totò a fake inheritance consisting of nothing more than four old pots.

The couple also saves a masked hungry man called Pulcinella, who risked his life just to reach a nest of eggs on a cliff.

After that the girl is called by a man's voice and goes away in a rush, while Totò and Pulcinella stick together and start cooking random stuff, only to find out that the inherited pots are alive and magical.

Mestolon is very jealous of Totò, so he teams up with Vincenzone and boycotts a feast for the French royal family, which ends in a declaration of war against the Kingdom of Naples.