Teo studies astrophysics. One evening he is hit by a car driven by Mavi, a girl of Slavic origins who stops to help him and then disappears. They meet up by chance once again and fall in love. The years pass. Teo and Mavi have gotten married and have a daughter, Caterina. But Mavi starts to act strangely and after a series of violent quarrels Teo decides to move back to his parents’ house and takes their daughter with him. Mavi, who finds herself alone, becomes even more emotionally unstable, a situation which is aggravated by her ambiguous relationship with her father.