影片讲述了一个在利沃诺的人口密集区成长的普通男孩的故事,他的父亲是一个守门人,曾经多次进出监狱。皮埃罗的兄弟有智力障碍,他还有个年轻的继母,一家人住在拥挤的公寓中。Story of young and shy Piero growing up in a popular area of Livorno (Leghorn) that has the same name as Piero's nickname ("Ovosodo" - "Boiled egg") from his childhood until marriage and coming of age. Mostly a story about all the people that changed his life: Giovanna, the teacher that pushes him to study, his best friend Tommaso, his great love Lisa who will definitively sail away. It's also a story about all the disillusions and compromises in finding one's place in life.