The story of Fernanda Wittgens, the first director of the Brera Art Gallery and the architect, during the war, of the rescue of many works of art and many Jews destined for deportation.
Manuel is a young swimmer who seems one step away from realizing his dreams: he has time to join the Olympics, he's falling in love and his family support him. But in a second his life changes. A brutal unexpected event forces him on a wheelchair and he must seek for all his strength to react, to "be born again".