November 1944, Latium countryside. The last hours of a partisan's life. An attempt to remember what it means, and how difficult it is, to be free.

Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

Beniamina, the Befana, has to confront an evil "anti-Befana", who's sowing discord to the fairytale world and stealing children's dreams.