[2] Lorenzo, an elderly retired lawyer, has just had a heart attack but in the hospital he refuses to speak with his children Elena and Saverio, with whom he has no relationship.

Back home, Lorenzo makes the acquaintance of Michela, his new neighbor, who moved with her husband Fabio and their two children to the apartment next to his, while he was in hospital.

Lorenzo grows fond of this family from the north, especially Michela who invites him to smile more, proving to be an affectionate presence in his solitary life.

During this period in which he visits Michela daily, Lorenzo meets Aurora, Fabio's mother, already paranoid and unable to manage relationships with others since he was a child, and returns to find his old lover Rossana, whose relationship now ended seems to have led to the starvation of Lorenzo's wife.

One morning Michela dies and Lorenzo moves away from home causing agitation to his daughter Elena, who despite her father's silence had always worried about him hoping for a reconciliation.