Vitello and his Mum have a new car. Well, nearly new, anyway. And mostly Mum's. But the important thing is that it can't get scratched, not if Vitello doesn't want to be grounded, or sent to the children's home, or worse. Vitello lives in a terraced house by a ring road with his mum, where the traffic is noisy and his friends are annoying. He's had other adventures and been in other scrapes too.