The characters are two ruffians in various disguises: as false priests, they sell a rotten arm pretending it to be a relic of St. Luke; they cheat a stingy friar who abuses of the confessional to get rich and, once he finds out he's been cheated, gives himself sacramental absolution. They help the noble Filippo, disguised as a woman, in the alcove of the innkeeper's wife; they save from despair Fra Martino who had forgotten his underwear in his lover's house (one of them disguised as a cardinal retrieve the garment and expose it as a relic to the devotion of the faithful). To live with their lovers, Brother Jeronimo strives exorcisms and frà Partenope pretends to fight with the devil
as Curly Swindler
as Don Alfonso
as Filippo
as Viola
as Fra' Jeronimo
as Monna Lisetta
as Frate Partenope
as Carmela
as First Swindler
as Lover of Fra' Martino
as Masseuse
as Maîtresse
