Ignazio Virgilio Fagaroni, for his friends Faga (even if he has no friends, according to him), is a problematic boy destined for a banal and monotonous life. That is, until he finds a super mysterious case that will catapult him into several amazing adventures.

A man regains consciousness somewhere unknown and claustrophobic. Dazed and confused, he begins to wander its dark corridors, but a series of visions will force him to deal with a far worse reality.

1979. Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli is appointed liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana, the empire of mighty financier Michele Sindona. Teaming up with unassuming cop Silvio Novembre, Ambrosoli uncovers the real scope of Sindona's malpractice, exposing him as the middleman in a global network linking the Sicilian Mafia, Italy's ruling Christian Democrats, and CIA-backed covert operations across Western Europe. Isolated by his own government and pressured by mob hitmen, Ambrosoli refuses to back down, insisting he is simply 'doing his duty'.

Matteo meets Lorenzo and Paolo, old friends and classmates who he had not seen for many years. The three go out for a drink together to an old sandwich shop where they used to spend time. Between one beer and the other, the three men tell each other about their lives, discovering soon that that they share a deep existential melancholy. Eager to relive their lost youth, the three men get crazy with joy in the street, until they meet a group of street thugs that awakens in them a strong feeling of envy and intergenerational hatred.