In only a day, the engineer Ivo Brandani (while he waits for a plane) tells us his entire life, recognizing a nearing end. In a backward narrative, Brandini reviews his life with the melancholic lucidity of his weaknesses and dreams. He also writes of a country submerged in abuse, hypocrisy, bureaucracy, and submission. He remembers the economic excess at the beginning of the century, the student protests of the 60s; from youthful days at the beach discovering love and sex, the barbaric postwar world, to his first steps of his childhood.