 Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer of 1962. They will spend two days together, meet both Roberto s and Bruno s family. The time Roberto spends with Bruno is a hilarious, but sometimes emotionally merciless accelerated maturization process. While Bruno s easy going "l usage du monde" and societal success attract Roberto s great admiration, he also slowly realizes Bruno s hollowness, superficiality and unhappiness.