Ludovico is an orphan eighteen-years-old guy raised by the junkie uncle. He grown-up quickly, searching in adult women the unconditional love, that only a mother could give. His best friend's mom and his literature teacher are the first women with whom he tries to fill his emotional emptiness, but without succeeding. After the complicated love affair with his uncle's lover, who opens his eyes on the reality of his family, Ludovico begins a path of reconquest of a normal life, through falls and consciousness risings, until an unexpected end.