[1] In 1922, during Fascism, Antonio La Quaglia accepts the assignment to the station master in a remote town called Piovarolo, because that's where it always rains.

Antonio soon realizes that life in the small village is sad, because the inhabitants are all old, deluded, dying, without hope.

One day he sees off the train a beautiful lady, who does the primary school teacher.

Soon the two get married and start a family, but always Antonio wants to get away from Piovarolo, but politics and the ministry do not care at all about him.

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