The story takes place in Palermo, instead of Verona. He loves her and she loves him, but their families are not happy about the relationship. The protagonists of this love affair are, Toni Giulietto, a down at heel singer and Romea Wacoubo, a beautiful Nigerian streetwalker. Fate has it that Romea goes to live in the same building as Toni Giulietto. They meet and it is love at first sight. War is declared between Toni’s terrible aunts, who can not bear to see their nephew fall under a foreigner’s clutches and Romea’s friends, who can not understand how she could fall for a good-for-nothing white man.