
Novelist Victoria Gotti raises three teenage sons.
John is graduating from high school and wants to go away to college; Victoria hatches a plan.
The Gottis get ready for a trip to Italy; the boys wonder whether Italian women are hairy and if it's legal for them to drink there; Luigi redoes the guesthouse, so Victoria's sister Angel can move in.
After the Gotti family arrives in Italy, the boys get in touch with their roots at a gladiator school in Rome.
In Rome the family learns to draw nudes, Pete takes the boys sightseeing, and Victoria falls in love.