Arianna is nineteen, but she's still waiting to get her first period. As the summer begins, her parents decide to renew their acquaintance with their country house on Lake Bolsena, where Arianna lived until she was three, and has never been back. As the family settle in for the summer, long-repressed memories start to re-emerge, and Arianna decides to stay on after her parents return to the city.
Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.
Jamila is a Moroccan girl from southern Italy who is figuring out life without guidance, friends, or money. She is intelligent and resourceful though and at times it seems she is blazing her own path. But her pride and restlessness may cause her to slip through the cracks.
Rudi lives on petty crimes in his small world. He is sixty and he has spent most of his life on his own. He is feared and respected, he knows everything about this small world of his, but he doesn’t know that anything you leave behind can sometimes catch up, grab you and crush you. When he finds himself having to take care of his daughter Susanna, he is forced to come to terms with himself.
Thirty-year-old Yuri and his father run the last farm left in a small, remote mountain village. Desperate to find love, Yuri meets a young woman in a strip club. Chiara Campara's fiction film debut takes a hyperreal approach to portray forgotten members of society, giving the story an incredibly authentic feel.
