Rome. Luca is a restless fifteen-year-old who grew-up without a father and is in search of guidance.  Bruno is a childless professor who left teaching to escape to a boring routine of tutoring private students.

Bruno never gave direction to others, not even to himself; but his boring everyday life undergoes a sudden shock when the man discovers that Luca is his son.  The rebellious student and the melancholy professor find themselves forced to live together; while the father has difficulty understanding how to get along with a teenager intolerant of rules and studying, but full of life, they eventually come to understand each other.