They do not cultivate true friendships, even though they frequent the Placido family, whom they envy for their children's scholastic success and despise as belonging to the "lower social class".

Bruno Placido is the father of two extremely cultured and educated children, who in reality are not happy at all and suffer the now impassive, now angry and violent behavior of adults.

Ada, daughter of other neighbors, offers him an intimate meeting, inspired by the videos she sees on her father's cell phone, a proposal that doesn't ensnare him and in the end he gives up.

The boys' teacher is fired for having provided the rudiments for building bombs so that, before leaving the institute, he induces his students to prepare poison, to be taken at a certain time, in a singular collective suicide rite.

Epilogue with Amelio, whose son is the only survivor, who learns from a chronicle of the murder-suicide of Vilma and her boyfriend in Spinaceto, after having drowned their newborn daughter, probably under the influence of drugs: the same opening news.