Returning to Italy after a romantic getaway in Tunisia, Anna (Maria De Medeiros) and Mara (Antonia Liskova) discover they have a stowaway in their car – Anis, a young Moroccan. Anna, spoiled but good-hearted heiress to a shoe manufacturing business, takes him under her wing, while the distrustful Mara, a worker in the shoe factory, initially resents the intrusion. Eventually, the three establish a fragile domestic rhythm, but the forces of the outside world start to undermine their makeshift family as each one tries to reconcile the various polarities of their identities — native versus foreign, straight versus gay, rich versus poor.