Isa Miranda is the beautiful wife of Vittorio de Sica, a poor official, who suddenly dies, and she is inconsolable and organizes a grand funeral with a mass of condolences and pompous circumstances, but the problem is that Vittorio de Sica suddenly wakes up in his coffin before he has been buried. He gets up and also scares the wits out of his inconsolable wife, but what is worse is that his death means a life insurance of 30,000 lire which they simply cannot do without, as his poor job only kept them at basics. So he insists on the funeral being carried through, with him watching, and they collect the money and go for a second honeymoon. But on their journey a former suitor of hers turns up and proposes to her. And that is only the beginning of the complications.
The film has been described as something of a Lubitsch comedy, but here there are some truly sinister ingredients as the problems of the husband being clandestinely alive constantly keep piling up. The film begins with Vittorio de Sica visiting his own grave together with a gravedigger, to whom he confides his entire story and finally asks the gravedigger to solve his problem, since he can't get any job without legal documents. The gravedigger solves the problem.
The film has been described as something of a Lubitsch comedy, but here there are some truly sinister ingredients as the problems of the husband being clandestinely alive constantly keep piling up. The film begins with Vittorio de Sica visiting his own grave together with a gravedigger, to whom he confides his entire story and finally asks the gravedigger to solve his problem, since he can't get any job without legal documents. The gravedigger solves the problem.