He is a plain estate agent who lives his uneventful life in the anonymous suburb of an unspecified city. Indeed such a showing of "compulsive ordinariness" conceals his predicament of autistic isolation. Therefore, as he attempts to make up the illusion of an ideal world, he daily puts on a pantomime of the "perfect neighborhood", which is painstakingly staged by a group of paid walk on people. While such an artifice seems to help him fulfill his unexpressed love dream, a harsh overwhelming reality forces him to give up his illusions and eventually get in touch with the imperfect human dimension. The Plastic Cardboard Sonata is a story of urban loneliness, featuring lyric suggestions in the context of a paradoxical frame. By means of an accurate use of silence it sketches out the essence of daily life malaise.

The Plastic Cardboard Sonata

When Rita discovers she has little time left to live, her primary concern is to fight death. She is overcome with concern for her son Gianni, who has a heart of gold, but who is socially awkward and still lives at home. Rita asks Daniela for help, a newcomer in town, who recently divorced and who has sworn to forget men altogether. Daniela agrees to become a teacher for Gianni's relationships, and that's how things start to get complicated.