Being a minor, Sandy is accompanied and directed in all activities by her mother and stepfather, who seem to act toward the girl more as career managers and promoters, than as loving parents.

Seeing this as an opportunity to get some freedom and experience life beyond the many restrictions and work sacrifice of her public career, Sandy blackmails Rolando to indulge her whims, to take her around the city and have fun, under the pretense of educational visits to various Roman museums and cultural attractions.

Gradually a tender friendship also develops among the two, and it starts to progress also toward romantic interest between the beautiful and naive teenager, and the more mature but timid and insecure man.

Carlo Verdone was inspired by the plot of the film by a journalistic service of RAI, made by Carlo Sartori, which told the phenomenon of the so-called "babymodels" – just exploded in the early 1980s, with the case of Brooke Shields –, and to complain exploitation of mothers on their prodigal daughters; mothers not very sensitive to the need for a balanced psychological development of adolescent daughters, who deprived them of a serene infancy to take them to forced stages to success.

Finally appears in a small cameo, as a presenter of a fashion show, Christian De Sica; Verdone wanted to help his friend, as well as his brother-in-law, at a time when he was in financial difficulty.