The carabinieri cannot be married before age 30, so Franco decides to secretly marry Letizia the day before he is transferred to Turin and spend the honeymoon day at the home of ex-brigadier Tarquinio. But fate strikes--hard--and the day before the wedding of Franco, the carabiniere on horseback, his horse Rutilio is stolen. The day of the honeymoon thus turns into the arduous search for the stolen horse, a search studded with accidents of various degrees of threat-to-life. What about the wedding?