Sole a catinelle

Sole a catinelle (lit. '"Sun[light] in basins"', modeled on the expression pioggia a catinelle, "rain in bucketfulls ", which means that it is raining very hard) is a 2013 Italian comedy film directed by Gennaro Nunziante. The film is the fourth highest-grossing Italian film in Italy.

Plot

During the 2008 financial crisis, Checco Zalone is a Southern Italian living in Padua together with his wife, Daniela, and son, Nicolò. Checco starts working for a company which sells "Fata Gaia" vacuum cleaners ("Fata", meaning "Fairy", is a parody of the popular Italian Folletto, meaning "Pixie", in other countries Kobold), and becomes very successful by selling them to all his relatives who migrated to Northern Italy, thus becoming the most successful salesman of all time. He starts asking for loans to buy presents for Daniela and Nicolò to a company named "FidoFly". Later, with the success of Vileda robot cleaners and his family having enough Fatas, he starts earning less money, to the point that FidoFly starts taking back the things he bought, while Daniela decides to ask for a divorce. Checco, is forced to eat at Caritas soup kitchens. He swears to his son that, if he gets 100% in his report card he will have a fantastic vacation with him. Nicolò succeeds in this goal, forcing Checco to take him on vacation during the summer holidays. Checco, who has to sell at least seven cleaners or else be fired, travels with his son to his family's home region of Molise with the goal of selling vacuum cleaners to his remaining family members in the South. He decides to stay at the house of his extremely cheapskate aunt, Rita, who tells him that all the other relatives are dead or emigrated to Canada, except for Checco's cousin Onofrio, who already owns a Fata