El motor de la historia es el amor apasionado entre el italiano Cosimo y la francesa Nicole, que se conocen durante las manifestaciones contra la cumbre del G8 en Génova. Se enamoran a primera vista. Comparten el amor por la libertad y la música. Viajan juntos, pero luego deciden volver a Génova. Trabajan para un amigo que organiza conciertos, que al principio parece progresista pero luego se mostrará como una especie de monstruo. Durante la construcción de un escenario, un inmigrante africano se cae de un andamio. Este accidente romperá el equilibrio que reinaba entre los dos enamorados.
Giorgia (Angela Baraldi), una detective privada de aspecto descuidado y fuerte carácter, trabaja en la agencia privada que su padre posee en Bolonia. Dedica la mayor parte del tiempo a investigar casos de infidelidad matrimonial. Dieciséis años después del misterioso suicidio de su hermana menor Ada (Claudia Zanella), recibe una caja con cintas de vídeo que constituyen una especie de diario íntimo de Ada. El vídeo muestra una joven feliz y extrovertida que sueña con el futuro, que lucha por empezar una carrera artística y que trata de ocultar una relación amorosa clandestina. Mientras investiga, Giorgia se sumerge tanto en el pasado de su hermana como en el suyo.
Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his feelings but doesn't want to get too involved because she will soon leave for studying in America. Alex gets relief in music and his friend Martino who leads what looks to him as a more complete life.
A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabriele now runs a successful antique appraisal company in Paris. He lives in a fine, automated apartment which his lover Claire compares to an impenetrable box. Gabriele is haunted by his troubled youth, which is presented through flashbacks. He and his baby brother Martino were bastards. Their father was the wealthy Giancarlo Giannini who already had a family. After Gabriele's feisty and independent mother died, he and his brother were taken into their father's home. Though living in luxury's lap, the now adolescent Gabriele was mistreated by his two hateful half-brothers. He eventually ran away from that house. This is the motive behind his revenge. But to get it he must return home and therefore, must face his past.
