A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.

Cristiano is unemployed, desperate and hasn't any hope to help his autistic brother Lucio. One day Cristiano take the decision to submit Lucio as candidate to participate at a TV show called "Operazione Speranza" (Operation Hope) as the final solution to sort out their problems. But the day Cristiano is taking the preliminary interview, Lucio get lost. Lucio in his ramble meet Flaviana and starts an immediate friendship.