It is a summer day in 1992 in Bologna. The marriage of Luciano Baietti and Fiamma, already the parents of two young children, is hastily concluded. Just enough time for a toast in paper cups and the groom leaves in the company of a strange person with a handful of documents in which the bride had conceded ownership of some properties. The years pass and Luciano, at the suggestion of his accountant Sergio Bollino, creates a real estate empire of which he is president. An empire constructed with suspicious trafficking and connivances. In the meantime, the two children grow and although the oldest maintains resentment for the father that abandoned them, the second, who studies cinema and lives with his mother, is instead a naive and generous young man who has not yet discovered the true nature of his father.