- A teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and his students' family problems.
- Divorced teacher Marco Sperelli is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. The first day of work he finds in the school only the caretaker and a few girls and boys in the classroom. He goes out looking for the rest and discovers that the boys and girls of Corzano live a wretched life in which only power and violence are worth respecting. Sperelli tries to teach something different but he gets their respect only by slapping Raffaele, a budding Camorrist. His presence and work, however, disturb too many people, who wish for him to be transferred.—Baldinotto da Pistoia
- A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples. His first challenge is to increase attendance, meaning that he must collar his students one by one from home, jobs, or delinquent idleness. Then he must convince them that classroom learning has real-world payoffs. Meanwhile, Sperelli's students draw their gentle, self-deprecating teacher into their gritty lives outside the classroom. North/South contrasts abound, including a hilarious soliloquy on the nature of Switzerland.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
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