Agata receives a visit from Florence, an old woman who wants to contact her dead husband to prove to her son that his ghost exists and that their house cannot be sold. Terrified by her encounter with the ghost, Agata decides to help the old woman with the help of her daughter Milla and a listless Ulisse, who will not believe in the ghost's existence until the very end.

1996 film by Maurizio Nichetti

1980 film by Maurizio Nichetti

Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish color commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to mix up – a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumers' heaven. Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out.