弗朗西斯卡（亚利桑德罗·加斯曼 Alessandro Gassman 饰）和妻子玛塔（弗兰西斯卡·阿罗雅 Francesca d'Aloja 饰）结婚多年，共同经营着一间设计工作室。随着时间的推移，当初的激情早已经渐渐淡漠，只留下了一对貌合神离的男女，麻木的维系着名存实亡的婚姻。
　　某日，弗朗西斯卡得知了姨妈去世的消息，他必须赶到伊斯坦布尔，去处理姨妈留下的身后事。来到伊斯坦布尔，弗朗西斯卡得到的竟然是一间土耳其浴场，他准备将浴场出售，却在此时遇见了名为奥斯卡（Carlo Cecchi 饰）的男子，两人之间产生了奇妙的化学反应，弗朗西斯卡对于奥斯卡的情感渐渐萌芽，他荒芜的一生就此改变。

米兰达是威尼斯一家酒吧的老板，丈夫在二战中战死。米兰达有个情人是议会的老议员。老头经常弄点项链什么的首饰哄着米兰达与他幽会，每次又力不从心，还总信誓旦旦地想娶米兰达。小米只是嘲弄地说他是自己感情生活的调味品。

       冬天，小米又找了个情人，是个卡车司机，还把货柜破改成了卧室，每次途经酒吧，总要跟小米在卡车上缠绵——但卡车司机是个咸粗鲁的家伙，小米认为他根本不懂爱，因此也不愿意嫁给他。

　　Within the walls of the Grave, the orphanage where Nica grew up, a legend has always been told: that of the maker of tears, a mysterious craftsman, guilty of crafting all the fears and anxieties that inhabit the hearts of men. But at seventeen years old, the time has come for Nica to leave fairy tales behind. Her biggest dream is about to come true. Mr and Mrs Milligan have started the adoption process and are ready to give her the family she has always wanted. In her new home, however, Nica is not alone. Along with her, Rigel, a restless and mysterious orphan, the last person in the world Nica would want as an adoptive brother, is also taken from the Grave. Rigel is intelligent, smart, plays the piano like an enchanting demon and has a beauty that can enchant, but his angelic appearance conceals a dark nature. Even though Nica and Rigel are united by a common past of pain and hardship, living together seems impossible, but kindness and anger are two different ways of fighting pain to stay alive and to conceal the emotions that devastate their hearts, becoming for each other that tears-maker of legend. To the maker of tears you cannot lie: and they will have to find the courage to accept that desperate force that attract them towards each other called love.

　　Two 25-year-old men who meet by chance, fall madly in love, and are then separated due to an unexpected event. For the next thirty years they pursue the hope of finding each other again.