Mario Cavallaro is a Milanese who has just turned fifty. One day, Oba, a Senegalese sock vendor, appearing with his wares right in front of Mario’s hosiery shop. In order to put things back, Mario decides to kidnap Oba simply to send him back home. Oba consents to his “deportation” under the condition that Mario also accompany his sister, Dalida, back home. Too bad for Mario is that she is actual Oba’s fiancée – and that the two of them have decided to use this crazy man to secure a free trip home. But once the trip begins, sentiments mingle, will everything go back where it belongs?