During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.