A group of teenage girls and boys in the city of Latina, just south of Rome, and its surrounding area during a summer that will change their lives forever.

　　When a young mother is barricaded inside a pantry by her violent ex-boyfriend, she must use ingenuity to protect her two small children from escalating danger while finding an escape.

　　该片改编自Olivier Bourdeaut撰写的同名小说，讲述一个年轻的男孩与父母住在巴黎的公寓中，父母每晚都伴着《Mister Bojangles》跳舞。当他的母亲完全陷入了自己的思想中，小男孩与父亲逃离了巴黎，前往西班牙的乡间别墅，他们这时才理解了有负担的人才是最光芒四射的。