Leone is fifty years old, he is a rich and lonely man. To recreate the warmth he has never had, he decides to rent a company of actors, to make them play the perfect family to be able to enjoy the Christmas holidays, in his villa in the countryside near Todi. But reality and fiction soon begin to merg over and over again. The script written by Leone will be repeatedly disregarded and the roles questioned, until the arrival of an unexpected character will give meaning to the whole story.