In the aftermath of the 2001 political elections, Matteo quarrels violently with his wife Livia, a passionate left-wing militant, who accuses him of having voted for Berlusconi. Livia is unable to accept the situation but, just as she leaves the marital home, she is hit and injured by a fragment of a plane that crashed in their garden. Matteo, distraught over the loss of his wife, drives in the middle of a storm and hits a man.

Ricardo Cavallo is a plein air painter who works in French Britanny. He works on wood panels that he assemblates into bigger paintings. Together with his students, they are working on a composition inspired by Goethe and his character, Wilhelm Meister.