Lino Settembre and Chicca have been married for many years. A happy and close marriage, despite their differences: he is a sportswriter for the Messaggero, she a university professor of Romance philology from a family of chief physicians and pianists, where everyone has many children. Lino and Chicca have none, they never arrived, but when Lino starts showing the first signs of precocious and degenerative dementia Chicca tries to mother him, to care for him like a child and Lino’s childhood memories return.
