A day on the beach, a stop sign ignored, a 15-year-old girl who brakes, skids and falls from her motor scooter. A race by ambulance to the hospital, the very hospital where her father works.
While a colleague operates on his daughter, Timoteo waits. Faced with the terror of this extreme situation, he remembers… he lets his mask of firmness and cynicism, of perfect father and husband slip and reveals a strange, violent image of himself.
In the hopes of setting words against the silence of the coma and defeating death with life the leading character reveals a painful secret in an imaginary dialogue with his daughter: the story, which seems miserable, is of a powerful, visceral extramarital love affair.
That hot summer, so many years ago, a young, meek, needy woman with a suggestive name, Italy, appears in the wretched outskirts of a city.
Sergio Castellitto y Penelope Cruz protagonizan esta sensual historia de amor, en la que Timoteo (Sergio Castellitto) es un prestigioso médico que mantiene una relación fuera de su matrimonio con una joven prostituta, Italia (Penelope Cruz).
Completamente enamorado de su amante y a punto de dejarlo todo por ella, Timoteo debe volver a la realidad: tiene una esposa y una hija qeu dependen de él aunque en su cabeza siempre está presente esa mujer: Italia.
