A family of Indo-Mauritian immigrants is dealing with a crucial event: the Father must go to the Municipality to obtain Italian citizenship. But this festive occasion soon turns into the risk, full of tension, of a social examination that puts the entire family on the ropes. In particular, Raoul, the son, is torn between the need to help his father and the frustration of still knowing he is a "foreigner". The physical resemblance to the Father, to which the title of the play is a bitter reference, symbolizes for Raoul the mark of discomfort and servility of his family in Italy. Despite the destabilizing apparitions of the young neighbor, Vikram, and the Mother's repeated prayers to the god Ganesh, it will be Raoul's colleague, Laura, despite her distrust towards Italians, who will bring a different energy to the usually closed house. The themes of linguistic discomfort and the difficulty of integration are represented in the opening and closing scenes, where the metaphorical reference to the "childhood" of the family is the sign of the condition of inferiority, helplessness and naive, in which all the members of the family find themselves they feel enveloped by fate.
