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Giorgio is twenty years old, he is a boy like many others and since he was a child he loves to do two things: jump in puddles and put on make-up. He lives stuck in the house with a big secret, with his grandfather Ulisse, now forced to bed and who keeps him anchored in his past. Pushed by his best friend Ilaria, after the death of his mother Rosa, Giorgio finds himself having to make a big choice: leave and be reborn in a new body or stay with his grandfather and continue living in a bad memory?
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IT

Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the same. Forty years old and father of two children, Giulio is forced by circumstances to say goodbye to family and economic well-being and to study new solutions in order to stay afloat and not drown in a new poverty made of double rents and double bills to pay, solitary lunches in fourth-rate restaurants, children's wishes not to be ignored and creditors to hide from.

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.