故事发生的背景是意大利罗马。影片节奏相对平缓，有张有弛，这是为了使故事在观众眼里呈现出绝对的平淡、正常，就好像是每天发生在我们身边的故事一样。

Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. ...