A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear,...
A tangle of stories in which aspirations and yearnings for freedom on the part of the white-collar worker are intertwined with those of Cristiano's personal and musical life in a discourse on our contemporary world.