Mim is forced to leave his family in Sicily and seeks work at a factory in Turin, where he engages in an adulterous affair.
The Seduction of Mimi (Italian: Mimi metallurgico ferito nell’onore) is a 1972 Italian comedy-drama film written and directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini as Mimi, Mariangela Melato, Turi Ferro, and Agostina Belli. The film was submitted to the Cannes Film Festival in 1972. The script was very lightly adapted for Richard Pryor’s 1977 film Which Way Is Up?