Sicilian Lollo Mascalucia, a small pasta factory owner has been married to Rosalia for seven years, pretending to all his fellow villagers that he doesn't want a child.
A italiano man, a small industrial pasta maker who has been married from seven years, pretends to his fellow villagers that he doesn't want children, hiding his wife's alleged sterility with various tricks. Lollo, however, after the death of his uncle and remained the only man of the family, now desperate, takes up the idea of becoming a father.