The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun that really happened during summer of 61 and it was was fully visible from Italy He sees his family life a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesnt love an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover his little friends