The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.

The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...

Paola and Andrea find out they both loved (and lost) the same man. They get over their mutual distrust and their friendship gradually develops to the point that they feel they should marry one another, but without giving up their personal freedom and sexual predilections. Theirs is a true love match: a marriage based on friendship and mutual respect, where sex does not come into the equation. The question is, will they stay together, or will society and its mores intervene?

Clara is a retired ornithologist, convinced that she can find the last specimen of a very rare bird extincted for 40 years. Her obsession culminated in moving to a house on a mountain, into the middle of a forest. The fragility of her psyche forces her daughter Adele to join her and try to convince her to return home. But in the woods, Adele has an encounter that makes her stay longer than she would have imagined.