Riko is an honest and hardworking man who can count on a group of real friends and a loving wife. Things change after he loses his job and experiences a midlife crisis.

As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, including his confidante and daughter, Dorotea.

In 1919 Fiume, Russian spy Beatrice navigates political turmoil while protecting poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, entangling with an intelligence chief and a WWI deserter amid Italy’s revolutionary unrest.