Cross stories of three women who find themselves in a cottage retreat in the Tuscan countryside during the Christmas holidays. One is a widow, another is divorced, and the third is on the verge of separation. They have led with them their respective children, who, as innocent and naive, will manage amidst a thousand difficulties to restore the failing households and give the widow a glimpse of the possibility of new love.

Dopo aver arrestato per errore il commissario Scappavia, la poliziotta Gianna D'Amico se lo ritrova come dirigente del suo commissariato dove quello ha rilevato il posto del commissario Nardecchia, passato alla buoncostume.