Paolo is a boy with Down's syndrome who tries to have a "normal" life. He works in a restaurant, but sometimes he acts like a child and has a mild cognitive impairment. The mother is a sunny person, who has accepted the child's syndrome and has learned to deal with it, often with irony. His father instead is suffering, feeling insecure and unable to take car of his son. In a gym Paolo meets Armando, 55, tough and lonely boxing trainer. The guy hits it off with him and begins first to attend the course of fit box, then to train with the amateur boxers.