“How can you explain your professional failure to your attentive and optimistic parents? How can you find the words to tell them their expectations won’t be met, that their desired social progress has stalled? The 38-year old researcher, Giorgio, hides from his parents. He gave in to precariousness and he was forced to give up his “American dream” together with his lover, Rose, and her daughter, Maggie. Giorgio is one of the many young adults whose future has been stolen. He represents a whole generation which is slowly becoming poorer and poorer, socially excluded, losing all safety and security. He has to face his responsibilities, considering his situation as a result of personal failure. A failure that is too shameful to confess to his family. His suffering is balanced by his parents obstinate faith in the social progress, in the wonderful progressive chances to improve the material condition, generation after generation. A dream which is not shattered, not even with some clear signs of a mysterious presence in the house.”