1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
Vincenzo, with OCD, runs a gas station on a quiet road. Only a woman seems to notice him and she lights something in Vincenzo.
