Lan - a detective fiction author - couldn't bear the hurt from her husband's betrayal, so she decided to leave the house and move to an rental apartment in an old building with her five years old son, Bi. Around the same time she moved in there, Vu - an amateur musician- also chose an apartment here to live in. Once Lan received a music box by chance from Mrs. Chu, the apartmen...
The story, set in rural Calabria in the late 1940s, tells of the friendship between a single mother and the local wedding planner, the only homosexual in the village. This friendship leads her to challenge the prejudices of the community and fight to find her place in the world.