Set in Genoa in 1969, the film follows the story of Alberto, a 10-year-old boy who attends elementary school and has a passion for Genoa and stickers. He is collecting those of the Italian football championship and now only one is missing. Through his eyes we follow the lives and events of the adults close to him: his mother (Eliana Miglio), who will have a secret relationship with the new substitute teacher (Giulio Scarpati), his bureaucrat father unable to listen (Piero Natoli), his sympathetic grandfather old communist (Enzo Jannacci).