After coming back home from America, Massimo, a charming and penniless nobleman, finds out that his sisters have decided to sell their family manor in order to pay for some debts. He will try his best to save the manor, with the help of his friend Vanni. In the meantime Massimo meets Maria and falls in love with her at first sight, but she has eyes only for the rich Marquis Vanvitelli, an old frenemy of Massimo’s family.