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Matteo (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) and Serana (Mara Venier) are living together in Rome in the early 1970s, and each has their own colossal challenges to face. Matteo is a hard-drinking, melancholy leftist who wants more than anything to be a film director, and Serana is a kindergarten teacher who has been so traumatized from being raped at the age of seven that her sex life is a shambles. The film follows Matteo and Serana as they cross each hurdle to normalcy, revealing the effects their individual changes make on their relationship and on their life's objectives.