1955. The war has been over for ten years now. Gabriele is a schoolteacher and still lives in the small village with his mother, Margherita, and his daughter, Eloisa, while Renzo lives on the streets of Turin as a homeless man until he finds work at Teresa’s inn. Years later, Gabriele runs into Federica Drigo again and discovers that she has a son named Luigi and that she hates his family—something he cannot understand.