Romulus, a gas station attendant at the petrol station of his rich wife Ines, one day meets Horace, his former comrade who has gone by chance to get gas with him, and is persuaded to run away from the boredom of married life to live by means of expedients. The two thus begin to wander between various countries of the Italian province. During their aimless wanderings they meet a girl, Candida, who joins the company. When Romulus eats several kilos of raw sausages and dies on a bet with a hippy storyteller he met in a tavern, Horace takes it upon himself to bring the fetal news to the widow. Romulus, however, is not dead, but simply passed out from indigestion, but by now it is too late: Orazio has already communicated to Ines his premature widowhood and willingly accepts the offer to spend the night with her, ending up marrying within few days.