Prima della rivoluzione 1964 Parma, 1962 Balancing between his Marxist ideology and his forced integration into the system, the twenty year old student, Fabrizio, is both repelled and attracted by his parents bourgeois way of life Still unable to come to terms with the untimely demise of a dear friend, and while preparing for his marriage to his statuesque and affluent but apolitical girlfriend, Clelia, Fabrizio finds himself distracted after the sudden arrival of the refined but troubled Milanese Aunt Gina Now, confused, Fabrizio has no other choice but to give in to lust Will Fabrizio embrace fate and his predestined ordinary life