Plot

A Roman tenement block, 1961: Sandrino waits for the total solar eclipse, fugitive Caligiuri returns to his wife, the Rossi brothers are obsessed with the legacy of their dying father, a family waits for the results of an eye operation.

The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...—<Sembola>