In this comedy, Alberto Sordi, the great Italian actor, plays the part of an apparently dull Italian fur merchant who has to go to Stockholm to buy furs. His faithful, but somewhat dowdy wife, plus the kids, bid him goodbye. His rail journey stretched on interminably. But on the car ferry from Denmark to Sweden, his compartment has to be shared with a long-legged blonde Scandinavian beauty. All is proper except she falls asleep and languorously stretches her boot- clad legs so they are between his. This is a foretaste of the exotic, erotic adventure he is about to experience. His fur-buying work done, he comes into social contact with the Swedes. Due to the difference between cultures (at that time) he commits various social gaffes, like apologizing to the husband of a woman with whom he has had a bit of adventure. He doesn't understand that guilt is no excuse for causing an embarrassing situation. Later is his participation in a decadent, high-living-standard game in which used cars are driven out onto a frozen lake and skidded and smashed into each other. (I am not permitted to tell the ending.)