退休企业家尼尔布雷默计划竞选洛杉矶市长，以证明他仍然精力充沛。但是，这个非政治家庭出身的人一旦赢得选举，他不仅要知道自己所捍卫的立场，还要赢得头号评论家的尊重，同时还要努力让美国第二奇怪的城市运转顺畅。

Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan...

Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan...

影片改编自爱德华多·德·菲利波创作的同名舞台剧，讲述那不勒斯是安东尼奥·巴拉卡诺的家乡，安东尼奥又是阿德里尤尼萨尼塔的市长，这位年轻、充满活力还喜欢文身的市长总是依照自己的规则来做事。

影片改编自爱德华多·德·菲利波创作的同名舞台剧，讲述那不勒斯是安东尼奥·巴拉卡诺的家乡，安东尼奥又是阿德里尤尼萨尼塔的市长，这位年轻、充满活力还喜欢文身的市长总是依照自己的规则来做事。

20世纪80年代初，祸害中国长达十年的文化大革命终于被扔进历史的垃圾堆，百废待兴的当下，改革开放春风吹遍神州大地，自上而下从政府到民间都酝酿着一场追求幸福生活的巨变。地处南方的瀛洲，华侨出身的工程师肖子云走马上任当上代理市长，他承诺要为百姓做十件好事，从治理交通，集资兴建公路大桥，到鼓励实事求是，提拔任用有真才实学的人才，再到为动乱中受到不公正待遇的科技人员平反。肖子云事无巨细，事必躬亲，是停滞不前的经济局面得到改善。当然在这一过程中，难免有一些既得利益者或者讲话思想的人提出反对意见，甚至连曾经支持他的市委书记也颇有微词。 然而这些从来不会阻止肖子云为百姓谋福利的步伐……