Marta Mangiucca

A bicycle, groceries from a supermarket around the corner, a rush home to cook breakfast. A morning like all the others.

A train travels across Italy toward Rome. Onboard is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was; a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket; three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match; and a complaining widow travelling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and decorum, and opportunities for kindness.

Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.

A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.

The entire Rienzi family eagerly awaits their summer return to the country house, where each member hopes to experience a truly special stay. Vittorio, the father—recently struck by a heart attack—and his wife Marinella dream of revitalizing their troubled marriage; their daughter Eleonora, a single mother, hopes to rekindle a romance with the local heartthrob, Antonio; and their fifteen-year-old son Matteo—who has failed three school subjects—aims to win over the beautiful young Fiorenza, whom he has thought about all winter long. As their dreams and hopes collide with reality, the Rienzi family will experience a summer that proves pivotal and transformative for their lives.