Davide Camporesi is the owner of the Pensione "Tornerai" of Cesenatico, which he manages familiarly with his wife Elvira and his daughter Carletta, preferentially welcoming Germans. One day, while in the country for the purchase of wine dangerously crosses the machine of Vindice Forattini, a former companion in the XII Matteotti Brigade of Partigiani, a friend who has lost sight of for thirty years and now travels with his daughter Cesarina to sell agricultural feeds owned by a small industry in Codigoro. The casual encounter determines a transfer of Cesarina to the Camporesi and, little by little, leads to the crush of David who, having become a lover of his friend's daughter, flees with the same abandoning Elvira and Carletta. Pursued by Vindice, wanted by the Carabinieri.