Near a polo field, in the bushes, Valerio finds the corpse of Giuliana Villani, dead of a drug overdose. The girl had two siblings, each very different from the other: Gianni, married to Wanda, in appearance a wealthy but humble man, the pride of his family; and the black sheep Walter, ex-mercenary from the Congo War who's now a painter with a disorderly life and a taste for J&B. While the police investigate, Walter makes his own search for answers.

Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.