Autobiographical and set in the director's seaside hometown of Rimini, it shows a clique of male friends who won't or can't grow up. Close to their 30s, mostly unemployed, they are the Vitelloni of the title, killing time from bar to beach, as they seek to spice up their uneventful provincial lives. One of them, Moraldo, serving as Fellini's alter ego finally breaks free and leaves for Rome...
