Fabrizio Rongione plays a young man who, after time in prison for causing gbh in a fight (he has an explosive temper which he tries to control), restlessly moves from job to job, mostly in Trieste, Italy. Jobs include working as a packer in a supermarket, a baker, and a crane operator. His abiding passions are photography, and catching glimpses of a girl he first gave a turtle to (as payment for touching her back) as a schoolboy. The girl, meanwhile, has become a woman (Barbora Bobulova) who, at the start of the film has cut short a medical degree to be with her ailing aunt also in Trieste - the rest of her family having died. She has nightime work as a cleaner, and catches the same 5am tram home each morning that the "baker" takes to work. The director (Stefano Pasetto) weaves a delicate tango of glimpses, and near misses as the two lives brush, separate, brush again and finally coalesce some years later through an accident on the crane