Every morning, Lia Franca's father wakes her with "Get up sleepyhead! Time to go to work." Today is different. Along comes Vittorio De Sica on his bicycle, holding onto the bus he takes. Her coworkers at the perfume shop tell her he's not what she should be looking for. So when he comes by driving a big car, she accepts a ride home in his big auto, which turns into an excursion to the Lakes. There he abandons her, because his employers see their chauffeur out with the car which he told them needs repaired, and he has to drive them home, and he gets into an accident on the way back and....

De Sica's first of nine movies for director Mario Camerini is a slight one, a romance of working-class people meant to show off the beauty of the countryside around Milan and the gaudy excitement of the 13th Milan Fair as much as the stars. They give good performances, touchy and uncertain, he thinking she's a gold digger but he wants her anyway, she thinking he's a louse, but wanting him. Will they ever get over their injured self regard and get together?

Well, it's inevitable they will, of course, in the movies, but there are enough obstacles thrown in their way, and bumper cars too!