A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.

Giuliano, kindergarten teacher, goes to his ex's birthday, meets Liliana and falls in love with her.

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.