Camilla, a successful business lawyer, works in the cool, unemotional world of multinational high finance in Milan. She is completely absorbed in her job. This leaves little time for her relationship with her lover and for her rebellious 19-year-old daughter. One rainy night, Camilla is involved in an accident that kills a young man. He has no papers on him. Who was he? Why does no one know him? Camilla begins to investigate, to look for traces of the sans-papiers. The accident has opened up a spiritual rift in her, old memories and deeply hidden feelings inexorably make their way into Camilla's heart and thoughts...