An unlikely prison friendship develops between Giocondo, an exponent of the upper-classes with a large personal fortune, and il Serpente (The Snake), a world-wise male stripper. Giocondo is also madly in love with Nonò, a black woman who is also responsible for his descent into crime.
After serving their sentences, Giocondo and Il Serpente find the return to the cynicism and hypocrisy of everyday life hard to take but things take an extreme direction when Nonò meets Cicera, the Snake's girlfriend...