Umberto is a lawyer happily married to Carla. Their life is perfectly quiet in Milan, as long because of the crisis, the company's director Umberto where works: Patrizio Azzesi, decides to make a cut in expenditure. So Umberto takes refuge away from home with his mistress Morgana, and only too late he discovers that she is the wife of Patrizio! When Umberto decides to cut the report, the desperate woman kills herself in an accident, and so Umberto returns home, making peace with his wife.