An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Caterina is in her 20s, her dream is to become a musician but she’s paralyzed by fear. One summer she meets her idol, the French singer Mia. It is the beginning of a complex and magnetic relationship that will accompany Caterina over the years and finally allow her to find home. Almost.
Deva is a young girl marked by a painful choice: the abortion of a child. Her chance encounter with a child will give her back, through a journey of pain and love, that motherhood and that life that she seemed irremediably lost.