Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.

Totò
as Antonio Buonocore

Peppino De Filippo
as Giuseppe Lo Turco

Giulia Rubini
as Marcella

Giacomo Furia
as Cardone

Gabriele Tinti
as Michele

Yoka Berretty
as Marlene, moglie di Antonio

Luigi Pavese
as Rag. Casoria

Annette Ciarli
as Madre di Antonio

Lauro Gazzolo
as Andrea

Salvo Libassi
as Brigadiere Solmi