Award-winning Italian drama about a dysfunctional middle-class family whose individual aspirations pull at the seams of their increasingly fragile bonds. As their children come of age and begin to follow their own dreams, Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) finds himself torn between his marriage to Giulia (Laura Morante) and a passionate affair with Alessia (Monica Bellucci), while Giulia must face her own buried desires.