Trip of Fools

What could possibly happen when a group of naïve Americans from a small Southern town tour Italy as a group? Tour organizer Carl Minton has his hands full as his forty-four clients negotiate cultural differences interpret Italian through their Southern dialect and encounter unexpected manners during a tour that includes Rome Tuscany and Venice. To complicate matters Carl and the handsome tour guide Francois fall in love steal every opportunity to be alone together. Through drunkenness obstinance and indolence pick-pocketing general forgetfulness and of course shop-lifting. Carl's trials are as exasperating as anything in a Kafka novel but full of laughs on every page. Carl manages in spite of his trials to appreciate the magnificent Italian countryside and the experience of love and friendship.