An international incident threatens to break out a war between major European powers that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

After years, a woman visits her old father in a nursing home to try and make up for lost time, but not everything goes as planned.

'Live or dead ... we'll bring it to you in 24 hours!' this is the slogan of a particular Milanese funeral agency, that organizes funerals throughout Italy with a low price. Marco, who works there, will therefore have to bring an old widow to bury her late husband in a small village in Molise, but the problems with the local populations will complicate everything.

On board a train on its last trip, five people know each other, collide, make friends and solve their personal issues finding out what's really important in life.

The film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.