Gianni Zanasi

Stefano, once a successful punk rock star, is now past his best times. Having lost everything, he heads home to find shelter. But at his family's country house, everything has changed.

Enrico is very proud of his unique job: he saves endangered companies by befriending their often reckless bosses and convincing them to sell out. He's saving people's jobs and, he believes, the economy of his country. The encounters with a young girl and two new troubled clients make him question the real motives and morality of what he does.

Lucia, a single mother, struggles to find the right balance between her teenage daughter, a complicated love story and her career as a geometer. Her professional future is compromised when she realizes that the future construction of an ambitious building turns out to be dangerous for the environment because of the inaccurate topographic maps of the city council. (imdb)

They are actors, they live their daily dimension as if it were an anomalous time, sometimes a dead time, a time of transition from one character to the next. "Life is short but the day is very long" tells this time, stages the fragments of their lives. (pupkin.it)