Mario was 82 years old and had some physical limitations. To get around he needed the support of a walker and some help going to the bathroom. He had a decent retirement income after 40 years of work. He had also obtained recognition of the carer's allowance and lived in a council house that had been assigned to him when he was still young and his son was only 15 years old.

A few years ago his son had moved to live with him because he had been evicted from the house where he lived with his family. One day the son begins to tell his father that cohabitation between them was no longer possible, that both he and his wife had to go to work and could not take care of him during the day. He suggests the retirement home, but Mario tries to resist.

His son's proposal, which by now was already more than a proposal, upsets him and in order to assert his rights he opposes it with all his strength, sometimes even letting his quarrelsome character re-emerge. Mario adopts these attitudes because he is aware that in reality he will not be able to thwart his son's proposal which was now a decision made. He cries, he despairs but he is forced to do what his son tells him to do: he takes with him a bag with some clothes, a telephone, glasses and sets off, without speaking, with his son to an isolated house that borders the countryside and overlooks a busy road. Upon his arrival, an assistant greets him and shows him the room that he was supposed to share with two other people. Some elderly people look at him, someone greets him.

So in the public house registered in Mario's name his son remains to live with his family and he, no longer considered part of the family, is forced to live in a structure among strangers, isolated from everyone and everything.

All he has left is his cell phone to maintain some contact. So he calls someone he knows and tells the absurd story of him which seemed like a nightmare from which he could no longer wake up. He says that he felt bad there, uncomfortable, that he didn't eat well, in fact the food was insufficient and he was always hungry.

After a few days, the son, having learned of his phone calls, goes to the institute and takes the phone away from his father. He tells the director that it was better not to let him keep him because those calls agitated him and made him feel bad.

Mario was no longer able to tell anyone these things, they closed him in silence.