Rome, 1974. Guido is a wannabe avant-garde artist who feels trapped in a conventional and intrusive middle-class family. Serena, his wife, does not love art, but she loves the artist and always meddles in his life. Their sons, Dario and Paolo, 10 and 5 years old, are the unintentional witnesses of their parents’ irresistible erotic attraction, of their troubles and infidelities, of their constant bargaining over affection. Among happenings, whims, super 8 movies, lazy summer vacations, design and confessions, the film tells the happy years – which seemed to be unhappy – of a family that, trying to be free, finds itself caught in a prison with no way of escaping. Will they be able to rescue themselves?