It is based on the comedy play Sulle strade di notte by Renato Lelli.

Until the day when Maurizio, now a teenager, together with a friend commits an attack for futile reasons against a gas station attendant.

Having learned of the incident, Valerio and Lucia also in this case intend to face the situation in a diametrically opposite way.

The conflicts within the family thus strongly resurface, in which, amidst rebounds of responsibility, the errors of both parents emerge in the upbringing of their child.

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