After having lived a few years in the USA as a stuntman, Francesco returns to his home town for the funeral of his elderly parents.

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.