Florence, late nineties, Moreno Alaimo, a young Bolognese painter, lives in a world of dreams and few certainties. Hired as a worker in the production department of a Florentine industrial giant, a tough struggle for independence begins in a harsh and alienating working reality. In his work he puts all his strength and his hopes, in a desperate attempt to redeem himself from a painful family situation. Become a witness to intrigue, arrivismo and games of power. The prolonged contact with grotesque and hostile environments and the fatal meeting with an employee of the upper floors, Carla, open his mind to existential doubts never before discovered: from the anguish of endless eight hours to unbridled jealousies for an elusive and sick love . It is the story of a great vertigo, of a generation that has lived on the edge of the launch pad of modern society bent to the needs of consumerism.