Antonietta is an elderly mother who lives with Vincenzo, a braindead son from birth and forced into a wheelchair in a semi-vegetative state and with Ciruzziello, a small colored fish living in a large ampoule. The woman spends all her energy taking care of her son, trying to give him all the love possible. Through her stories, the woman passed on to her son a love for the sea, where they often go for long walks. Her fervent religious faith, already put to the test in the last period, shoulder strap because of a tumor that slowly devours her and when after a medical examination, she discovers that she has little to live, an existential crisis begins. The thought that his son Vincenzo remains only after his death begins to torment her, abandoned by institutions will have to take on a single choice .