I Cesaroni

Giulio and Lucia Cesaroni organize the ritual barbecue that marks the end of summer. Among those present are Giulio's inevitable brother, the mechanic Ezio Masetti and his wife Stefania, a friend of Lucia and the principal of the school where they both teach. Obviously Lucia's mother, Gabriella, is also there, while the youngest of the family, Mimmo, observes that this year the doors of middle school are opening for him. For Alice and Rudi, always dog and cat, instead the much more terrifying doors of high school are opening wide! The firstborns Marco and Eva are far away: he studies music in Milan while she is in New York to specialize in journalism and live with her chef boyfriend, Alex. Their friend Walter, son of Stefania and Enzo, is left hanging around Garbatella, drooling over Carlotta, his beautiful girlfriend from the upper neighborhoods. While walking with Rudi, his passion for mechanics leads him to notice a splendid vintage motorcycle that he inadvertently knocks over.

Giulio and Cesare are convinced that Ezio has contracted the Ebola virus, infected by the parish priest Don Luciano who has just returned from Africa. The three friends believe they are infected and lock themselves in a wine shop, drunk, awaiting death.

Cesare, having escaped a collision with a chandelier that fell into a liquor store just as the procession of San Saverio was passing through the neighborhood, believes he has been miraculously saved and undergoes a sudden conversion, worrying Giulio.

Cesare, to encourage little Mimmo to take swimming lessons, boasts of being a great swimmer, but in the pool he is forced to confess that he fears water more than his nephew, keeping away from it. Faced with Mimmo's difficulty during the race, Cesare, however, does not hesitate to dive in to accompany the child to the finish line. Lucia and Giulio, meanwhile, try to stay close to Eva and Marco, still suffering from the end of their relationship. While Marco prefers to stay alone, Eva, resumes her relationship with Alex.

Due to an accident in the wine shop, Giulio is forced to welcome the amnesiac Francesco into his home, who soon wins the sympathy of the entire family. Meanwhile, Cesare and Ezio discover his true identity: Francesco's name is Oreste and he is gay.

Cesare sees Pamela again, the two still love each other and start dating again. The innkeeper, however, cannot confess to her that he is a virgin and instead of sincerity, he prefers to disguise himself, on Giulio's advice, behind the false identity of the wealthy Achille.

The Cesaroni family and the customers of the wine shop are in a frenzy: soon there will be a derby between the football team of the Garbatella neighborhood and the team of the neighboring neighborhood. Captain Giulio, overcoming Lucia's resistance, decides to participate.

There is tension in the Cesaroni household over Marco and Eva's affair. While they are waiting for Giulio to return from the hospital, the two young people are wondering about the future of their relationship: Eva is considering dropping out of school.

Giulio, to impress his friends Ezio and Cesare, makes up a story: he says he kissed the model Alena Seredova. Together with Lucia, Giulio surprises Marco and Eva in bed together. The story causes him to have a heart attack.

There will soon be a dance competition. Giulio and Lucia, unbeknownst to each other, take tango lessons but, while Lucia, thanks also to the skill of her partner Barilon, makes great progress, her husband is clearly in difficulty.

Cesare accidentally hits Barilon's dog with his van. Giulio and Ezio are convinced that the innkeeper killed a tax inspector and plan to report him to the police. Alice babysits her friend Umberto's brother.

Giulio is worried because his wife Lucia is not getting pregnant. After having tried the unlikely treatments proposed by Cesare and Ezio without obtaining results, the innkeeper asks his friend Ezio to be a donor for artificial insemination.

Cesare confesses to Giulio and Ezio the reason for his breakup with Pamela: he is a virgin and did not have the courage to reveal it to his fiancée. The two, to help Cesare, send him to a prostitute, but Pamela surprises him and misunderstands the situation.

Lucia plans a group vacation at a campsite in Sardinia, but friends and relatives have other plans and one by one they back out, so Giulio and Lucia are forced to leave alone. Eva, convinced by Giulio to forget Marco, for the good of the family, follows Veronica to Croatia, while Marco and Walter leave for Greece.

At school Rudi and Alice compete for the role of gang leader, while Lucia, depressed by her absence from teaching, devotes herself with obsessive attention to household chores, worrying Giulio. Marco, abandoned by Rachele, confesses to Eva that months before he had been in love with her.

Little Mimmo is in love with his classmate Sara, who plays the princess in the school play. The child, in order to be close to her, accepts the part of the maid of honor and asks Lucia for help in getting ready. Giulio, noticing the preparations for the play, misunderstands Mimmo's interest in the female universe and, believing him to be gay, tries to involve him and convert him to male activities.

After a strange phone call, Giulio becomes convinced that Lucia is being pursued by a man. After entrusting his children to the care of Ezio and Stefania, the innkeeper leaves for the United States with Cesare and Gabriella, but during the flight the Cesaroni brothers are mistaken for two attackers and repatriated. Upon his return to Italy, Giulio discovers that the mysterious John is none other than Lucia's gay roommate.

Alice hangs out with a bully named Riccardo who, in order to be accepted by Giulio, tries to appear serious and studious. When the innkeeper, with Rudi's help, discovers the boy's true nature, he reserves his most classic punishment for him: the broom. Meanwhile, Marco, while still being troubled by his feelings for Eva, lets himself be seduced by Rachele, the new teacher.

Giulio, Cesare and Ezio are about to leave for the traditional fishing trip when Sergio, seriously ill, shows up again. The three, suspicious of the sudden arrival of Lucia's ex, kidnap him and take him with them to Abruzzo. Upon returning to Rome, his illness revealed, the man says goodbye to his family and leaves for treatment in the United States, accompanied by Lucia, encouraged by Giulio.

After years of absence, Augusto Cesaroni, Giulio and Cesare's brother, leaves the United States and returns to Rome. Giulio, who has always believed Augusto to be a rich and powerful former race car driver, has to change his mind. The man, full of debts, has actually shown up only to claim his share of the liquor store. Meanwhile, Rudi blackmails Alice because of his stepsister's affair with a boy.

Marco learns that Eva is going to London for a weekend and would like to accompany her, so he tries to scrape together the necessary money and his uncle Cesare finds him a job as a liscio player with a small orchestra of over-sixty year olds in a club. Meanwhile, Ezio, because of a prank by Giulio and his brother, argues with Stefania and leaves home.

Marco seems increasingly strange and it is now clear to everyone that he is in love. However, no one suspects that the lucky girl is Eva. Meanwhile, Sergio shows up at the Cesaroni house and, on the verge of being named Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Republic, he would like to take advantage of the opportunity to embarrass Giulio and win Lucia back.

Don Gervasio, the president of the Romulana, the neighborhood soccer team, dies suddenly, so Cesare and Andrea run for the succession. The innkeeper, thanks to Ezio's help, becomes the new president but, for the good of the team, gives up his place to the wealthier rival. The latter, after another attempt to seduce Lucia, receives Giulio's violent congratulations.

There is tension in the Cesaroni household. Lucia is so busy with work and household chores that Giulio hasn't been able to have a moment of intimacy with her for several days. Meanwhile, Marco has a fight with Lucia, guilty of having taken the guitar from the closet that reminds the boy of his deceased mother. However, things smooth out and Marco starts playing again.

Giulio, in an excess of romanticism, leads Lucia to the place where twenty years before he had made love to her for the first time, but unfortunately he gets the wrong place. Lucia, with a deadly pressure, manages to make Giulio confess: the other, the accused girl, was Stefania, now Ezio's wife. Lucia punishes her friend by wrecking her car.

Sergio wants Lucia to get back together with him, but after her ex refuses, the ruthless manager goes to Giulio's liquor store and threatens to take away his future wife, daughters and job. Giulio acts on impulse and doesn't hesitate to punch him, so Sergio, with the complicity of a doctor friend, makes the Cesaronis believe he is dying.