Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.

Don Donato is ready to reveal to everyone that he is not a real priest in order to return to Cesira and be a father to Junior. However, his uncle hinders him in every way for fear that such a scandal will make him lose the opportunity to become a cardinal.

After six months spent meditating in the high mountains, Don Donato returns to Pellizzano to pack his bags and leave for Rome, where he will return to wearing civilian clothes. However, he finds the country much changed, full of arcades and women of easy virtue.

A redeemed ex-robber with a mysterious past, Dragan, and a young worker and father of a family, Daniele, share a passion for the game of chess, thanks to which they get to know each other and become good friends. When Mr. Assante, a wealthy and ruthless entrepreneur, decides to move his company abroad where the profits are greater, Daniele, unemployed and desperate for his disastrous financial conditions, convinces the reluctant Dragan to dust off his criminal past.

The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.

Donato, a scoundrel music manager, to escape the two henchmen of a boss who, due to his inefficiency, has caused him to lose a lot of money, taking advantage of a letter from his uncle the bishop, introduces himself to the parish priest of a village church, Don Dino, dressed as a priest, and pretends to have been sent there by the bishop as assistant parish priest. Don Dino's church is always empty. In fact, the town's faithful frequent the new church, run by Don Gabriele, a pimp priest who knows how to deal with people. Donato's arrival initially seems like the final blow for Don Dino's church: Donato doesn't know where to start a mass, he has never confessed or married anyone, the mere idea of ​​performing an extreme unction scares him. Don Dino begins to argue with Donato: he seems anything but a priest. But little by little, Don Donato's extravagant ways, his open-mindedness as a "sinner", his mentality as a rock priest, begin to attract the faithful.

A manager and his company. Power, greed, decline. When the social relationships that wealth presupposed are broken, there seems to be nothing more than a bond of fidelity: that with a dog.

After the news of the death of Don Dino, who was transferred to Trentino, Donato leaves to attend the funeral. When he arrives at his destination, he discovers that he has been appointed his deputy in the parish.