Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. It also happens on the first day of his forty years, when Dante shows up hours late at his birthday party. According to him, the solution seems at hand: if he works hard enough, maybe in a few years he will be able to buy some time.

故事发生的背景是意大利罗马。影片节奏相对平缓，有张有弛，这是为了使故事在观众眼里呈现出绝对的平淡、正常，就好像是每天发生在我们身边的故事一样。