Spicchietta and Bagigio have been engaged for a while; they live together in a rented room, in an apartment they share with other people. They love each other, or at least they think they do, but they are beginning to feel cramped by their life – and their room.
Manuel is a young swimmer who seems one step away from realizing his dreams: he has time to join the Olympics, he's falling in love and his family support him. But in a second his life changes. A brutal unexpected event forces him on a wheelchair and he must seek for all his strength to react, to "be born again".