PLOT

Pasquale Lojacono is a poor soul dogged by misfortune, in addition to being incapable of any kind of work. The owner of a seventeenth century building gives him an apartment free of charge 50 that he may disprove the story that the place is inhabited by ghosts. Pasquale moves there with his wife Maria, who has a lover who, to enable her to live comfortably, often sends her food and money. Pasquale is convinced, or perhaps he convinces himself, that it is a ghost who brings these gifts, but Maria, resentful of her husband’s behavior, decides to go away with her lover. When he realizes his mistake, Pasquale pretends to kill his wife to save face and serves the sentence imposed on him for so-called ‘reasons of honor’. Maria, convinced of her husband’s good faith, waits for him until he is released from prison. The two leave together for Scotland where Pasquale finds a job as a waiter in a castle where there are real ghosts. (Enrico Lancia)
Story: from the play of the same name by Eduardo De Filippo.