In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Back from America, famous singer Charles Trénet, nicknamed "Le Fou Chantant", makes the conquest of a bombshell called Anita. He tries to persuade his young friend Georges to follow them to the French Riviera but the pessimistic gloomy finicky fellow won't do it. Instead, he decides to go on holiday with his newly married wife but the trip , due to his grim mood, is no bed of roses. In Juan-lès-Pins they finally meet Charles, who is so infatuated with Anita that he has forgotten to meet his old friend Henri Poupon, the Meridional actor. Thanks to cheerful Charles and to the sunny climate, Georges relaxes and things improve in his relationships with his wife. The couple can applaud Charles who is giving one of his concerts there before he flies back to the USA, on Anita's arm this time.

The "Foyer de la Jeune Fille" takes in teenage girls who have no family of their own, their birth not having been well received. As a result of a peccadillo, Jenny is deprived of her planned trip to Yugoslavia. With the help of a forged postcard, she creates a false uncle in Yugoslavia. The headmistress authorized her trip, but Jenny had to deal with the help offered by Dragan, a sympathetic student, and the curiosity of the local authorities. But love comes, difficulties melt away and Dragan makes a good husband.

Brigitte, the beautiful daughter of the French premier, falls for one of her father's aides, the womanising Michel, and attempts to get him to settle down with her. However, as Michel can't curb his flirtations with other women, Brigitte makes a play to seduce the married Prince Charles, resulting in a battle of wills between the gorgeous girl of privilege and her beau.