Aurelia is 85 years old and for 5 years she has lived in a retirement home in the center of a populous neighborhood of Rome. She has a very rich relationship life. Every day she goes to visit her friends, she goes around the shops and has long conversations with the traders in the area who know her, she goes to her doctor for advice who has also become a trusted person. The pandemic arrives and the doors of the institute close: she can no longer leave. Even when the period of greater restrictions on the movement of people has passed, it is not possible to leave the institute. Anyone who leaves can no longer return. Aurelia feels oppressed by this situation but she is aware of the emergency that the whole world is experiencing and of the tragedy that has overwhelmed the lives of many. She complains a little but she tries to resist waiting to see the end of this terrible epidemic. But with the new wave of the pandemic, the virus also entered the retirement home where she lived: almost all the elderly people and the elderly nuns in the home fell ill. Aurelia is also positive, but fortunately she manages to overcome the disease without having to be hospitalized. Instead, other elderly people in the institute and even the elderly nuns are forced to be hospitalized and some never return, perhaps six, and die.

Aurelia is shocked and, when infections begin to decline and restrictions begin to ease before the summer, she asks to go out just as all Italian citizens were allowed to leave their homes and move freely.

She was told again that she was not allowed to leave and that if she did she would not be allowed back in. So after a few days she packs her bags, books a room in a bed and breakfast and walks through the door of the institute to regain her lost freedom. She did it.