Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

Bologna, fine anni '70. In un appartamento di periferia, tre individui convivono senza incontrarsi: Pentothal, ventenne meridionale abbandonato dalla combattiva femminista Lucilla, passa il tempo tra canne e sogni; Enrico Fiabeschi, fuoricorso e fuorisede, si fa mantenere dalla fidanzata; Zanardi, liceale ripetente, viene accusato dalla preside di aver crocifisso - insieme ai suoi amici - il gatto Galileo...

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.