Cuando la mujer de Pietro (Nanni Moretti) muere de improviso un día de verano, en ese preciso momento él estaba en la playa salvando la vida de una desconocida. Desde entonces Pietro se dedica sobre todo a estar con su hija y a no hacer nada: empieza a observar el mundo desde otro punto de vista y, poco a poco, va descubriendo el lado oculto de los demás. Sus jefes, sus compañeros de trabajo, amigos y parientes, intentan consolarlo, pero acaban rindiéndose ante su incomprensible e inquietante calma.
In search of purpose, 17-year-old Claudio helps easygoing mechanic Stefano build a car capable of winning a street race that could solve his financial problems, all while going out with the latter's former girlfriend.
Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when they're reached by Rita, Tommaso's daughter.
