Plot
Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo are three very different fathers from Milan. Aldo is a seemingly lazy hypochondriac who is always on sick leave, married to the endlessly patient Carmen, and father to three children. Giovanni is a meticulous and irritating perfectionist, married to Paola, with a teenage daughter, Alessia; he runs a failing family-owned shoe-accessory shop. Giacomo is a work-obsessed dentist, married to the anxious and overprotective Barbara, and stepfather to twelve-year-old Ludovico, who often withdraws into video games.
The three families, who do not know each other, travel to a southern Italian island for their summer holidays, only to discover that they accidentally rented the same house. The local carabiniere advises them to share the home rather than start a bureaucratic battle. When the agency later offers an alternative, Salvo—Aldo's son, infatuated with Alessia—rejects it without telling anyone.
As the vacation unfolds, each family's hidden problems surface. Giacomo is secretly coping with a lawsuit he has just lost after injuring a patient. Giovanni has decided to close his shop without informing his family and disapproves of Alessia's relationship with Salvo. Aldo, who seems carefree, is under pressure from Carmen, who fears he is hiding something from her.
Forced to live together, the three men gradually bond. After searching for Aldo's lost dog and later chasing after Ludovico, who has run away to meet a pen pal in Follonica, they begin to support one another. In Follonica, Giacomo reconciles with Ludovico, who decides to stay a bit longer with his pen pal's family.
Meanwhile, their wives also grow close, and even indulge in carefree antics, while Salvo and Alessia's relationship deepens. During the return trip, the men stop in Santa Marinella for a Massimo Ranieri concert. Thanks to an old favor, Giacomo gets Aldo onstage to sing with his idol, fulfilling Aldo's lifelong dream.
On the way back, Aldo falls ill and is hospitalized. His secret is finally revealed: he has a terminal disease and wanted to spend his remaining months in joy and normality. In the end, back on the island, the three families—now united—watch the summer fireworks together. Aldo's voice-over concludes that he hates summer, but only when it ends.
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
