Il Boom - Plot

Plot

Giovanni (John) Alberti, a small building contractor in the years of boom, is heavily in debt because of his poor skills in business but above all its high standard of living, which strives to maintain at all costs, even to the pressure of the beautiful and frivolous wife Silvia (Gianna Maria Canale), where he is in love. After John, who was unable to repay a large loan, called for financial support to family and friends getting alleged derogatory waste (the only concrete would be willing to help his mother, but is not rich enough to do it), suddenly the wife of a rich manufacturer, Mrs. Bausetti, gives him a private appointment prospettandogli an attractive deal. John even suspect that the elderly lady wishes to be his lover, but in fact the Bausetti, used to getting everything he wants with his money and his manner cold, dismissive and seemingly conciliatory, John wants to sell a large figure a cornea to her husband, who long before had been blinded in one eye by an accident with quicklime. They could afford to, he calmly explains the woman, not worth the cornea implant of a dead stranger, but it is preferable to propose such an arrangement, though obviously illegal, subject to a young, healthy and in need of money. Meanwhile, spread the news that John is ruined, Silvia, feeling betrayed and forced to give up seeing all'agiatezza not even consider the idea of ​​making sacrifices to help her husband, but returns to the family home with her young son two years. John, desperate for the abandonment of his wife, ends up accepting the proposal in secret of Bausetti and accepts in advance, staring at this for the next week. With the money, who claims to have won in a lucky deal, man organized a lavish reception in his splendid apartment of 'EUR, in revenge of acquaintances who had humiliated and to regain the esteem of Silvia, which, removed the specter of poverty, does not hesitate to declare riavvicinarglisi and proud of him. Everything seems to go smoothly, but the removal of the eye rests. John, with his wife pretending to go on a business trip, is in the private clinic of confidence Bausetti as agreed, but at the time of the transaction runs away in despair. The intervention of Bausetti, as usual polished and controlled, managed to convince him to live up to the agreement: even assuming that John gave up the money offered by the couple and they give back the advance, as it would later to remedy its difficulties economic, and therefore maintain the family ties? John, resigned, restarts to the clinic.