Ezio is a screenwriter scared by happy endings who earns his living thanks to an invention of his father. He is going through a creative crisis until he has a car crash with Anna who invites him to dinner. Once there the stories of several characters get interwoven triggered by the decision of the 16 year-old Filippo Anna's son to get married. Dinner's attendees become the characters of Ezio's new screenplay but they will try to interfere with his work.