Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. It also happens on the first day of his forty years, when Dante shows up hours late at his birthday party. According to him, the solution seems at hand: if he works hard enough, maybe in a few years he will be able to buy some time.

离婚多年的维托和卡拉已经有了各自的新生活，他们的共同连接就是三个孩子。某日小女儿邀请爸爸参加自己的生日派对，但派对后维托突然失踪并遭遇意外，嫌疑人直指前妻卡拉。随着调查展开，维托的家暴史浮出水面……导演利奥纳多·达戈斯蒂尼的这部影片改编自女作家安东内拉·拉坦齐的同名小说，他将悬疑、罪案安置于女性议题中，缓缓呈现女主角内心隐藏的巨大创伤。法国女星莱蒂西娅·卡斯塔担纲主角，倾情演绎一个在婚姻中绝望挣扎的妻子。