In your place on Rai 1: plot, cast and the ending of the film

TOagree to live another person’s life to save your job. AND In your placefilm with Luca Argentero, Stefano Fresi and Ambra Angiolini broadcast tonight at 9.30pm on Rai 1. A comedy that shows, through an expedient bordering on the absurd, the dangers of the world of work, but also the need to question oneself.

In your placethe plot of the movie

The protagonists are Luca Molteni (Luca Argentero) and Rocco Fontana (Stefano Fresi)creative directors of two competing companies about to merge. Summoned by the future director, the upright Mrs. Welter (Pia Lanciotti), they discover that in the new team there is only room for one of them. And, to establish who will be entitled to it, they must demonstrate that they have a strong ability to adapt.

For a week they will exchange lives. Easier said than done, because they embody two archetypes distant from each other. Luca is a hardened singlelives downtown in a home with home automation, is attentive to his figure and doesn’t care about anything except himself. Rocco, on the other hand, lives in the countryside with his wife Claudia (Ambra Angiolini), the three children Alice (Carolina Poccioni), Salvo (Marco Todisco), Sara (Giulietta Rebeggiani), he is constantly overweight and as a neighbor he has his mother-in-law Erminia (Fioretta Mari) who has never respected him.

They accept the challenge. Rocco he can’t find his way with home automation and take advantage of the distance from the family to interrupt the diet and indulge in various fried foods. He meets Ines (Grazia Schiavo), Luca’s neighbor, who turns out to be an important point of reference.

Luca and Rocco, two opposite but compatible personalities

Luca, in turn, has to deal with the coldness and reluctance of Claudia and his three children. Claudia doesn’t respect him, she doesn’t accept his presence in the house and behind an apparently kind smile she does everything to put him in difficulty. Starting from the dishes served at dinner: strictly dietary, just like she always did for Rocco.

One evening, fed up and hungry, Luca goes to the town bar looking for something to eat. Here meet Anna (Serena Rossi)an old flame of his and Rocco’s cousin. She also doesn’t welcome him in the best way and it’s clear that there is something unfinished between the two.

As the days pass, Luca and Rocco begin to adapt to each other’s world. Rocco agrees to accompany Ines on her crazy adventures. Luca becomes close to Claudia and above all to Salvo. He discovers that he loves doing murals. His parents don’t know anything because otherwise he would clash with his father. Rocco, in fact, is a simple surveyor and would like his son to become an engineer not out of inclination, but because in this way he would see the dream he has chased all his life come true.

The ending of In your place

Exchanging lives has its positive implications. Luca learns more about Rocco: he is a decent, solid man who has built a happy family. He has a wife who loves him unconditionally and is respected by everyone. Luca, on the other hand, is faced with his own limits. He defines himself as “a loser in the guise of a cool guy”. He has always chased freedom, but doesn’t know what to do with it because he is incapable of building real relationships.

However, it is he who makes Rocco understand that forcing his son to take a path that is not his would be a very serious mistake. In turn, Rocco learns not to judge by appearances and understands that although he and Luca are polar opposites, in some ways they compensate each other.

The day of the interview with the German director arrives, who will tell them which of the two wins the position as creative director. After a week of sacrifices, It turns out there’s no seat up for grabs because it was already assigned to the nephew of a minister. So, they team up and hatch a plan that acts as a twist. At the end, Rocco returns to the family welcomed by the affection of Claudia and her children. Luca, alone and disconsolate, realizes that he made mistakes with Anna in the past and decides to make one last attempt to win her back.

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