Rome, 2010. On her way home, Ilaria finds a young Ethiopian on her doorstep. He says he is looking for his grandfather, Attilio Profeti, who is none other than the young woman's father. What secrets is the patriarch of the Profeti family hiding? Troubled, Ilaria decides to investigate. Behind her father's official past - two marriages, four children and a resounding social success - she soon discovers the dark and fascinating journey of an unscrupulous man. As the veil is lifted on Attilio's youth, a whole hidden side of Italian history appears: the colonization of Ethiopia under Mussolini, the shattering traces of which still remain in contemporary Italy.