Through interviews with key figures and previously unseen period images, the story of the 1982 World Cup and the Italian national team, seen also from a private perspective, is contrasted with that of a country led by President Sandro Pertini.

Sergio, a forty-year-old with no steady job, has a brilliant idea and decides to open an agency that sells happiness and fights depression. With his friend Fulvio, he founds "Happy & Content" with the goal of fulfilling people's wishes and bizarre requests. While the business seems to be taking off, something unexpected disrupts business, generating a series of unexpected events that demonstrate how achieving happiness often comes from a small illusion.

The earthquake that struck Friuli in 1976 is still vivid in the collective imagination, for how it served as an example in the subsequent reconstructions. A necessary story to prepare us for the environmental upheavals that lie in wait.