The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40’s , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman’s liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70’s.

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira’s help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.