About
Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
Cast
Claudio Amendola
as Giulio Cesaroni
Antonello Fassari
as Cesare Cesaroni
Rita Savagnone
as Gabriella Lanfranchi
Matteo Branciamore
as Marco Cesaroni
Niccolò Centioni
as Rodolfo "Rudi" Cesaroni
Micol Olivieri
as Alice Cudicini
Federico Russo
as Domenico "Mimmo" Cesaroni
Elda Alvigini
as Stefania Ansaldo
Claudia Muzii
as Pamela Fantoni
Angelica Cinquantini
as Matilde
Beniamino Marcone
as Diego Bucci
Alessandro Tersigni
as Francesco Rizzo
Antonello Morroni
as Nando
Christiane Filangieri
as Sofia Scaramozzino
Edoardo Pesce
as Annibale Vitale
Margherita Vicario
as Nina Scaramozzino
Mihaela Irina Dorlan
as Irene Scaramozzino
Riccardo Russo
as Ivan Scaramozzino
Maurizio Mattioli
as Augusto Cesaroni
Dario Manera
as Alfredo
Seasons
Season 1
When Lucia and Giulio, former lovers, reunite after years, sparks fly and a new, chaotic extended family is born in the heart of Garbatella. Between secret loves, teenage jealousies, long-standing friendships, and everyday hassles, the Cesaronis learn to know, love, and survive under the same roof.
Season 2
The second season delves into the dynamics of the extended family. Marco and Eva navigate their secret love amidst countless difficulties, facing jealousy and attempts at separation. Lucia feels increasingly suffocated by the Cesaronis' intrusiveness, while Giulio tries to keep the family together. New relationships are explored, and the children grow up, facing important choices about friendship and romance.
Season 3
In the third season of the series, the Cesaroni brothers will face problems to solve with their usual wisdom and cheerfulness, but also pranks, challenges, and bets. Stefania and Lucia, close friends at school and in life, will also experience a thousand adventures, such as when they end up competing to determine who has the better husband, and they will do anything to win.
Season 4
Following the birth of Marco and Eva's baby girl, season four flashes forward a year and a half. Many things have changed in Garbatella: Marco and Eva have left for a tour, Cesare and Pamela are about to get married, and Lucia has started working in a museum in Venice, a development that doesn't please Giulio.
Season 5
The fifth season of the series opens with Giulio and Mimmo returning from vacation, where they meet Lucia, who's in Rome for an art exhibition. Rudi also returns to Garbatella, having left for the summer to visit some cities alone, hoping to forget Miriam. Marco also returns, but, not wanting to live at home, he stays with an old friend.
Season 6
In the sixth and final season, Giulio is the undisputed protagonist, and all the other stories unfold around him. Lucia temporarily moves to New York to help Eva with little Marta, and Giulio, with the arrival of the other Cesaroni siblings, finds himself alone managing a family that's bigger than ever.
The return
Episodes
Season 1
Betrothed / I can't see clearly
Giulio Cesaroni and Lucia Cudicini, he a widower, she separated, meet again after twenty years in Rome. They realize they still love each other and decide to get married, so Lucia's daughters, Eva and Alice, arrive from Milan and move in with the Cesaronis. Getting to know Marco, Rudi and Mimmo, Giulio's sons, is not easy and things are also complicated by uncle Cesare, Giulio's brother, and his jealousy. Sergio wants Lucia to get back together with him, but after her ex refuses, the ruthless manager goes to Giulio's liquor store and threatens to take away his future wife, daughters and job. Giulio acts on impulse and doesn't hesitate to punch him, so Sergio, with the complicity of a doctor friend, makes the Cesaronis believe he is dying.
The wedding of the century / 127 Rustica
Lucia discovers Sergio's deception and Giulio, having escaped danger, immerses himself once again in the preparations: he wants his wedding party to be unforgettable for the entire neighborhood. Unfortunately, finances are languishing and Giulio finds himself entangled with a financial company and forced to lie to Lucia. The latter, having discovered her future husband's lies, decides to punish him to teach him a lesson. Giulio, in an excess of romanticism, leads Lucia to the place where twenty years before he had made love to her for the first time, but unfortunately he gets the wrong place. Lucia, with a deadly pressure, manages to make Giulio confess: the other, the accused girl, was Stefania, now Ezio's wife. Lucia punishes her friend by wrecking her car.
The perfect father / The handcuffs of love
After a meeting with the school psychologist, Giulio tries to imitate Lucia in his relationship with his children, who are worried about their father's change. Meanwhile, Lucia feels lost when Eva confides in her that she intends to make love for the first time with her boyfriend and has a tough fight with her daughter. There is tension in the Cesaroni household. Lucia is so busy with work and household chores that Giulio hasn't been able to have a moment of intimacy with her for several days. Meanwhile, Marco has a fight with Lucia, guilty of having taken the guitar from the closet that reminds the boy of his deceased mother. However, things smooth out and Marco starts playing again.
Try again Cesare / It's not jealousy
Marco and Giulio have a tough fight over the young man's decision to become a musician. Meanwhile, Lucia receives a beautiful necklace as a gift from an anonymous admirer. The woman thinks that the gift was given to Giulio and when she discovers that the necklace actually came from her admirer Andrea, she flies into a rage. Don Gervasio, the president of the Romulana, the neighborhood soccer team, dies suddenly, so Cesare and Andrea run for the succession. The innkeeper, thanks to Ezio's help, becomes the new president but, for the good of the team, gives up his place to the wealthier rival. The latter, after another attempt to seduce Lucia, receives Giulio's violent congratulations.
The gifted / All the President's men
Rudi takes part in a psychological test and the result, to everyone's surprise, is that the boy is a genius. Giulio, enthusiastic, does everything to satisfy his son's needs and stimulate his intelligence. Alice, suspicious, discovers that the Leonardo da Vinci of Garbatella copied the answers. Lucia convinces Rudi to confess and the father's punishment is not long in coming. Marco seems increasingly strange and it is now clear to everyone that he is in love. However, no one suspects that the lucky girl is Eva. Meanwhile, Sergio shows up at the Cesaroni house and, on the verge of being named Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Republic, he would like to take advantage of the opportunity to embarrass Giulio and win Lucia back.
Marta / Jokes aside
Giulio must serve a two-match suspension as the Romulan coach following a heated argument with a referee and is forced to ask Ezio to replace him on the field. Meanwhile, little Mimmo is struggling with a difficult assignment for him: an essay about his mother. The child, who remembers nothing about Marta, his dead mother, asks his father and brothers for news. Marco learns that Eva is going to London for a weekend and would like to accompany her, so he tries to scrape together the necessary money and his uncle Cesare finds him a job as a liscio player with a small orchestra of over-sixty year olds in a club. Meanwhile, Ezio, because of a prank by Giulio and his brother, argues with Stefania and leaves home.
The Masetti war / Arrivals and departures
Ezio and Stefania argue furiously and involve Giulio and Lucia in their delusions. Meanwhile Marco wins a music competition but is sad because he would like to confess his love to Eva and to complicate matters there is also Cristian, the girl's ex who resurfaces after a long time, and Giulio, who, not understanding the young man's feelings, urges him to forget his stepsister. After years of absence, Augusto Cesaroni, Giulio and Cesare's brother, leaves the United States and returns to Rome. Giulio, who has always believed Augusto to be a rich and powerful former race car driver, has to change his mind. The man, full of debts, has actually shown up only to claim his share of the liquor store. Meanwhile, Rudi blackmails Alice because of his stepsister's affair with a boy.
America's uncle / Seduced and abandoned
While Augusto, out of the hospital, starts a relationship with Gabriella, Eva returns from Milan with her friend Beatrice. Giulio, hoping that Marco will fall in love with her and forget his stepsister, convinces his son to organize a party. Marco, however, disappoints his father's expectations. Meanwhile, Lucia, due to the return of Professor Zuppante, has to leave school. Giulio, Cesare and Ezio are about to leave for the traditional fishing trip when Sergio, seriously ill, shows up again. The three, suspicious of the sudden arrival of Lucia's ex, kidnap him and take him with them to Abruzzo. Upon returning to Rome, his illness revealed, the man says goodbye to his family and leaves for treatment in the United States, accompanied by Lucia, encouraged by Giulio.
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