米兰的汽车厂车间主任尼奥(Alberto Sordi 饰)准备利用半个月的假期回西西里老家度假,临行前,他的上司托他给西西里的黑手党头目文森佐带一份礼品。尼奥与妻子玛塔踏上家乡的土地后兴奋莫名,他介绍自己庞大的家族给妻子认识,那些旧日朋友有些死于枪杀,有些正在牢里,还有极少数人因为背叛朋友而成为乡民眼中的行尸走肉,剩下来的那些相识则对尼奥的“米兰味”稍有提防。尼奥拜见文森佐,得到了这位黑帮老人的认可,曾经的战乱年代中,尼奥是文森佐的得力手下。玛塔用自己的努力得到了家人的认可,尼奥也找回了和家乡传统契合的心态。某天夜里,尼奥被父亲叫醒,受命执行一项黑手党的暗杀任务…… 本片获1963年圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节金贝壳奖。Antonio is a jolly and precise guy working for an auto factory in northern Italy. He decides to take his wife and two daughters on vacation to Sicily, so that they can finally see his hometown and meet his family. He's excited to show them around and dispel many of their negative stereotypes about Sicilians. He even dispels stereotypes about the mafia, saying that being a mafioso as a teen amounted to just being a messenger boy. But as Antonio reconnects with his past in Sicily, he finds out that there are more sides to being a Sicilian than he remembers.