What, supposedly, happens behind the scenes of the Festival of the Italian Song in Sanremo: kickbacks and payolas, the producer resisting the assaults of the record companies and the TV presenter threatening to quit.

Gole ruggenti

Five ordinary people disillusioned with politics—a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict—decide to kidnap a politician, to dispense justice and use the ransom money to compensate the family of a blue-collar worker who died in workplace accident.