Synopsis:

When Adriano Setti is suddenly left a widower, he is at loss on how to cope with his five children. Away for long periods of time on business trips and making the best of his “good life”, he had left his wife Anna to deal with the up bringing of the children. Maria Luisa, 22 years old, is the oldest. Maurizio, 18 years old, is hopeless at school, but secretly nurtures journalistic ambitions. Francesca is a romantic 16 year old girl. Paolo, 15 years old is a shy and sensitive boy, last but not least comes Tony, 9 years old, the prodigious child and the family philosopher. Now Adriano has to take their mother’s place and it’s rough going despite the help and support of Valeria, a family friend and his long-time lover and Gina, the family’s housekeeper.
Now compelled to solve all their problems he falls in despair when he discovers: clandestine affairs, a powdery white substance in Maurizio’s room, and has to console the love torn Francesca and the spiritually troubled Paolo. For not to mention the little Tony, who insists on referring to him as “Adriano”. It seems that total chaos has been let loose.