During the holidays of Christmas, three groups of funny characters depart from Italy to spend the Christmas season in New York City. Camillo (Christain De Sica) is a penniless pianist who meets the fortune marrying a rich woman. However Camillo, although the happy living in comfort with a dependent daughter (Canalis), is still in love with Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli), a Roman working with whom he had an affair. Barbara, however, is now married to Claudio, but this is segretely in love with the daughter of Camillo. Dr. Severino Benci ships to New York his assistant Filippo, with a mandate to deliver a gift to his son Francesco, who studies in the most important university in the city. But Francesco is a pleasure-loving slacker who opens an illegal trade of joints. Filippo covers both he and his friend Paolo, and he's having fun with them, while falls in love with a Sylvia (Erika Othen), beautiful pompom girl.

570 Lexington Avenue and East 51st Street, Manhattan.

Times Square, Manhattan.   Times Square is a major commercial intersection, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Street.

Apartment, 401 East 60st Street and 1st Avenue, Manhattan.   Bridge Tower Place at 401 East 60th Street is a 38-story apartment tower on the northeast corner at First Avenue.

West 57th Street (btw 5th and 6th Avenues) Manhattan.

Roosevelt Hotel, East 45th Street & Madison Avenue, Manhattan.

W Ferry Line Road and Carder Road, Governors Island, New York.   This was a fictional hotel.

Church of Our Lady of Peace, 239 East 62nd Street (btw 2nd and 3rd Avenue) Manhattan.

Water Edge Restaurant, 4-01 44th Drive, Queens.