安东尼奥在米兰建立了自己的家庭和一份成功的事业，远离了他的母亲安吉拉。安吉拉是一个无论善恶都极为夸张的女人，充满魅力又守旧敌意，这次特意来和儿子共度圣诞。平安夜的晚餐因此变成了一座充满情绪、既滑稽又激烈的战场，让过往的种种误解重新浮现。这个夜晚最终演变为一场母子之间的清算，注定要改变他们情感纽带的意义：那是一种如烈火般在内心深处燃烧的爱。

At 39 years of age Mirko has just left prison. In the outskirts of Rome, a new future waits for him. When he is elected president of the homeowners’ committee, he realises that he can dream of a different kind of existence. Not only for himself and his family, but for the whole suburb where he lives. This film deals with a “bandit” who, with the help of his best friend Boccione, wants to turn the indifference of the suburb into solidarity and the roads into luxuriant fields of tomatoes, becoming the bearer of a happiness he does not know how to reach. It is the story of a fragile and irrational dream: offering a future to those who do not even believe they deserve a present.