Luigi, now retired and with nothing but old memories, goes to the cemetery every week to visit his beloved Laura. He still chats amiably with her and tells her about his days. 

His life has not been easy, and his heart still fills with sadness thinking of all he has been through: poverty, material and human misery, the death of his little brother first, the disappearance of his mother immediately afterwards; a series of events that have left indelible marks on him when he was just a child, filling him with deep melancholy.

One day at the cemetery, Luigi meets Curzio, a boy who lost his parents in the Amatrice earthquake; he had to leave school and move in with his uncle, who cares little for him. The encounter between them does not seem like an accident, and will change both their lives.