Adele bursts onto the scene like a heroine of the Nouvelle Vague. Nina slowly emerges from the forest of her shyness. They are mother and daughter, obsessed with love, books, and politics, hoping for everything, too much, as long as time is on their side. We meet them in the summers of their respective twenty-third years. At the Grande Bivacco in 1968 on an estate in Tuscany, with Adele torn between Bebo and Rudi—when together they were supposed to change the world and were left with a handful of regrets. Traveling around Europe on Interrail in 1993, with Nina betraying her brother Marco and her boyfriend Ruben with the young Thaïss—when everything seemed easy, a few months before Italy changed. Suspended between life as it happens and the memories with which they will pursue it, Adele and Nina lose and find each other again over fifty years of Italian history, while Milan becomes the theater—now gloomy, now sparkling but increasingly foreboding—of an era in decline. And how wrong they are, mother and daughter, in the choices entrusted to chance or left half-finished to the point of renouncing their ideals, in broken vocations and consumed secrets, in a hospital waiting room or on a windy beach in Albufeira. There are many, many companions on their journey, friends and lovers in this failed, or rather overturned, comedy: from desire to nostalgia, just in time to see what we are capable of when life puts us to the test.