Federico is an eighty-year-old impoverished nobleman seeped in Risorgimento ideals. He buys an extremely cheap apartment in Gorizia overlooking Piazza della Transalpina. The reason for its low price becomes immediately clear: every day a man comes and sits on the Slovenian side of the border of the piazza and with impunity, brazenly stares fixedly at the apartment windows. For Federico, this becomes a challenge to be accepted forthwith.