Synopsis:

You love children? Great. You'll work for low pay? Even better. You want a job that's more changeling than, say, a war correstondent or Mafia hitman? Congratulations! You're the ideal candidate for a job as a grade-school teacher!!! Like Emilio Ricci, who faces every new day in his elementary-school class with a mixture of hope, humor and devil-may-care dynamism. While his students lovehim, his colleagues view him with an air of amazement and tenderness, for only few teachers are ready to give their students as much energy and attention as Emilio. And God knows how much energy Emilio needs for other things... Like coping with his inquisitive father, a bullish ex-colonel; and resisting his romantic feelings for his colleague Barbara, the girlfriensd of school principal Luigi, who just happens to be Emilio's best friend... No matter whether young or old, whoever gets to know this warm-hearted, endearing, passionate fellow will agree with his students that his imaginative teaching methods are one of the best way of "Making the Grade"!