Nunzio and Paolo have always been friends but their partnership has produced only a series of failed businesses financed by their wives, who now threaten to throw them out of the house. The two seek redemption by opening a vegetarian restaurant until, to please a food critic on whom their destinies depend, they are faced with the need to transform the place into a steakhouse. Convinced vegetarians, Nunzio and Paolo have no intention of really starting to cook animals. Can vegetable steaks be passed off as real meat? It is the beginning of a spiral of hilarious events …