A friend of his convinces him to board a train to central Europe in the hope of getting to Italy to find a better paying job there, but his side of the trip comes to a halt when his passport is discovered to be fake during a stop in Germany.

After some initial hostility towards Ioan, Michele decides to let him sleep in his apartment for cheap, and also finds him an illegal job as a mechanic in a scrapyard.

The two eventually start bonding with each other, but tensions between them rise again when Ioan suspects Michele is hiding the fact that he got fired, which is indeed revealed to be true.

Things seem to get better for Ioan and Michele when the former finds a job as a model and buys a car thanks to a rich talent scout and photographer named Laura, and the latter is hired again to work as a janitor in another building in the city.

Ioan smiles as he gazes at the vegetation, leaving the viewer uncertain as to whether he's actually planning to open a restaurant in his home country with his late friend Michele's taught skills, or if he's just reminiscing about his Italian adventure.