A castle on a billboard is the only landscape by Elena's basement window. It's here where she lives, it's here where she manage her activity. In a hot day of summer, a new client appears to her abode: Sergio. Before the story goes, he has to pronunciate the password to get in: "Princess".
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
A man, who unintentionally killed a little girl when he was a child, goes back to the house where he was born, the place in which the accident happened.