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Overwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."

The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.

The Berlin piano maker Jan Epstein knows exactly what to do when it comes to restoring the highly sensitive instruments. As a small business owner, however, he is at least as unsuccessful as in his role as a family man. Jan secretly mourns the failed marriage with the concert musician Serafina and he has to make amends with his 16-year-old daughter Mia. An unexpected opportunity arose when the teenage girl, surprisingly, wanted to accompany him to Italy for a lovingly repaired piano. On the way, Jan notices what really made her travel with us: a large portion of reluctance to move with her newly in love mother and her fiancé Einar. In addition, there is lovesickness, which Mia wants to cure with distraction. Despite the adverse conditions, Jan decides to turn the delivery into a short break with an open ending. Jan prefers to suppress the fact that his girlfriend Stef, who wants to nail him down with plans for the future, and the bailiff are waiting for him at home, in the tried and tested manner. Because of his unreliability, a worried Serafina soon turns up at the holiday hotel, naturally with Einar in tow to check on Mia. Now Jan sees the chance not only to fight for his daughter, but also for his ex-wife.

In the 1832 Marquess Ottavio (Riondino) and his friend Paolo (Hendel) left Napoli to reach Sicily following same itinerary of poet Goethe. After few miles they are assaulted and robbed by bandits. They decided to stop in the Cilento, in the beautiful villa of a Prince their friend. This last will try in all the way to make his inconstant daughter to marry one of the two.