Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.

Four stories about football.

Lorenzo is a confirmed bachelor who creates atmospheric SFX for movies. His beliefs about love are put to the test when he meets Amaranta, a beautiful woman who has commissioned a fake snowfall as a surprise to her boyfriend—who doesn't show up, forcing Lorenzo to take his place in the romantic trip Amaranta had planned.

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to save their floundering ostrich-breeding business.

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.