The past interlaces with the present: the discovery of a mysterious yellowed photograph depicting a little girl will lead Christian and Jewish students to search for the truth. They undertake a journey through the memory of a painful past that is hard to forget, such as the memory of the raid on the Jewish ghetto of Rome.
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
El inspector Frustalupi está desesperado y sin pistas. Tras dieciocho ataques a mujeres de la ciudad, el maníaco sigue suelto ante la impotencia de la policía. Tras un nuevo ataque durante una exhibición de productos de jardinería, cree haber encontrado un sospechoso: Loris, un ladrón de poca monta perseguido por su casero y maltratado por sus vecinos.
