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Bernardo (Carlo Verdone) is a historian and a writer. However, as a rock-music historian and as a man who is writing a biography of Jimi Hendrix, he is not the gray, mousy man one might expect. No matter what kind of man he appears to be, though, he is completely devastated when his live-in girlfriend leaves him. He quickly becomes a non-functional basket case. To overcome this, he goes into psychoanalysis with a very magnetic therapist. At the same time, he becomes friends with one of his fellow neurotics, whom he meets in his analyst's waiting room. She is Camilla (Margherita Buy), an actress who currently has difficulty filming even one very short scene without needing endless retakes. The two of them become buddies but have a falling out which indicates that there are some undiscovered romantic tensions between them. Later, Bernardo is in London, trying to put the finishing touches on his Hendrix biography, when he runs into Camilla again, and the two finally become a romantic item.