Rome has not seen rain in three years, and regulations and customs change as a group of intertwined characters deals with the water shortage.

Cesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter, Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers Luciana is looking for a caregiver who can look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the role.

Amici come prima

Nunzio and Paolo are friends forever whose partnership has always produced failed business, financed by their wives. They look for ransom by opening a vegetarian restaurant until, to please a food critic on which their destiny depends on, they are forced to turn the place into a steakhouse. But they are convinced vegetarian and don't want to cook animals. Can vegetarian steaks be sold as authentic meat?