When it hurts to look to the past and when it scares to look to the future, just look next to you and a special friend will be there for you.
The '60s.
On sunny days in a small town in northern Italy at the foot of the Dolomites, Pinuccia, a ten years old girl meets Maria Covich, a mature woman tired by life, who quickly becomes her best friend.
The friendship between the two women, so different for their age but similar in their insecur.