在这部开心家庭喜剧片中,菲利普和玛尔达十六岁，他们决定结婚。玛尔达要做的是说服患有癫痫的妈妈和懒散的爸爸，菲利普则要靠继父文琴佐的帮助说服自己的母亲。固执的孩子和疯狂的大人们在一张桌子上聚餐，于是，发生了一系列超乎想象的事。
Ezio is a screenwriter scared by happy endings, who earns his living thanks to an invention of his father. He is going through a creative crisis, until he has a car crash with Anna, who invites him to dinner. Once there, the stories of several characters get interwoven, triggered by the decision of the 16 year-old Filippo, Anna's son, to get married. Dinner's attendees become the characters of Ezio's new screenplay, but they will try to interfere with his work.
