Abandoned by his wife, who leaves him their child, Michele, a former '68 student protester with little going on in his life, struggles to be a good father. In the meantime, he spends his time acting in an experimental theater company directed by his friend Fabio.

An Aikido master, a wood expert, but also a knife maker and even a chef. Different people and different lives, scattered between the tatami panels and the heat of a furnace, who find an unexpected meeting point in Bushido.