It’s the story of Maurizio and Mariangela, a couple of reporters looking for the scoop of their life,
working in a small and patched up private TV station called "Onda 33", the only one broadcasting 24 hours a day. The boss
of the TV station is a lofty scoundrel who orders them the worst reportages, the ones that other reporters have refused.
They accept the situation against their will. But they can’t stop dreaming about being engaged by the powerful "Etere TV" sooner
or later. Etere TV is a super-TV-station able to broadcast useless programs, last-minute news and programs directly broadcasted
even from airplanes!
When Maurizio and Mariangela are in a home for ‘Old Artists’ making useless interviews as usual, they get involved in a real scoop:
the plane of the rich Etere TV crashes just in the middle of the court-yard. The pilot and the reporter are ok, but strangely
enough... they are laughing and dancing apparently with no reason. The reality is that they were infected by the happiness and the
desire of dancing by the aliens travelling around the earth with their spaceship. Etere TV is promptly at the place of the accident,
erasing the possibility of the scoop for Maurizio and Mariangela and trying to hide the suspicious desease from the TV audience.
Because there’s a possibility that the fun could be infectious...
As a matter of fact, Maurizio and Mariangela were infected by happiness and dancing. They can’t edit a good reportage for "Onda 33"
and lose their job. But this is the right time to try to make it in the huge Etere TV. They try a selection and the executives
immediately discover that the infection’s already started. Etere TV engages Maurizio and Mariangela just to hide their happiness from
the world and announces the impending danger in a TV late edition. People gotta stay tuned but they absolutely have to cover the TV
set, because "Dancing is dangerous!".
The aliens got bombed by the deadly words of the TV speaker and decide to leave the earth forever. Maurizio and Mariangela escape from
the studios of Etere TV going through an air duct ending on a dust-cart. They got thrown into the garbage heap. They look at each other,
have a big hug, laugh... and dance!
The film opens with a tribute to Georges Melies. The opening titles roll on a remake of Melies’ "Voyage dans la Lune" set design. A
homage to the father of fantastic cinema, shot in 1982, "Domani si Balla" was considered ‘science fiction’ but soon became a reality in
Italy at the surge of commercial television: in an effort to win over more and more audience, television ended up terrorizing people.
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