A forty-year-old couple, Bruno and Paola, are separating, but Bruno - a film producer on the way out - is unable to accept the fact that his wife is leaving him. He happens to meet a young woman who has written a screenplay that she wants to make into a movie at all costs and direct it herself. Bruno stakes everything on this idea and the young woman, knowing that It is his last chance to prove himself career-wise and as a human being.