In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart. Written by Jean-Marie Berthiaume

Les aventures de Fernand Jouvin, pique-assiette paresseux qui se résout après quelques années passées en captivité auprès de Gerda en Autriche à retrouver sa femme, qui entre-temps, a épousé André, un cuisinier normand. ...