On the wedding day that is the result of much family plotting, flower bedecked white linens blow in the breeze while the brother of the bride celebrates by shooting up the sky with his pistol and a gangster juggles hand grenades. He has made a frenzied farce that packs the visual force of a fireworks finale. Three generations of two families mix it up with an hilarious assortment of friends, relatives, bystanders, and crooks who are involved in a plot so intricate that it's unfathomable. Two brides, two grooms, two fathers, many swindlers, a stolen train, smuggled gasoline. You see not just a circus wagon, but a circus wagon floating past on a barge, with a man watering the flowers in the window box.
Home base is a decrepit dockside shack.
Covered with animals, artifacts, and unimaginable clutter, the front-porch dock is home to people who play violins, run, trip, and fall all over the mess that is their home. In a misstep between ship and shore, a man plunges into the water with his newly bought washing machine. The Russians arrive to claim contraband Jordanian fuel. A dead man with a briefcase full of money in his hand swings from a swaying railroad gate. A brass band makes music while being roped up and down a tree trunk.