Raffaele and Lucia are on their wedding trip to Rome with ever-present Nona Sabela. When Sabela learns that some Americans are interested in finding petrol in one of her properties she jumps with joy, and states that all her wealth will go to her first female granddaughter. This makes his son-in-law Emilio back in Pollena cook up a false pregnancy for his wife Carmelina, Sabela's sister, secretly adopting an infant so that they can get the money.
—BSK