Fabio Gemelli, a mediocre sculptor, unfaithful husband and dreadful father. He's been dead for some years and estranged from his family for many more when his daughter Claudia finds a sculpture he made in the home of a woman who must have been his lover. Determined to map her father's life, she posts a newspaper ad to purchase sculptures by the dead artist. One by one, Gemelli's ex lovers approach her, telling her the story of the man with whom they shared a period of their lives.