Vincenzo Giordano

Clara has had a difficult relationship with motherhood since finding out she was pregnant with her daughter Amanda when she was 20, challenging the body she deems unfit for the role of mother by giving it without pleasure and working long hours in sordid night clubs. She decides to leave her daughter and partner but ten years later she is forced to take a newfound responsibility when Amanda falls ill.

Paolo, a thirty-year-old overwhelmed by responsibilities, visits his mother Lina. Between jokes and confidences, his desire to start a family with his girlfriend Laura emerges, despite work pressures. Meanwhile, in the heart of the same neighborhood, Marco lives a complicated relationship with Sara and is involved in increasingly shady dealings that, due to a case of mistaken identity, will also sweep Paolo into the chaos.

Forty years have passed since the death of Salvatore, and his brother Santo, who was just a child at the time, is forced to live in a climate of perpetual mourning due to his Mother, whose furious grief seems relentless. For Santo, the only glimmer of hope lies in Bimbo, a troubled teenager with whom he maintains a clandestine relationship.