Drama set in Trieste. After the death of her son Michele, followed by that of her husband Faustus, Stella decides to return to her birthplace - a little house by a lake in the mountains. Here she reflects on the past fifteen years of her marriage, the birth of her two children and the antagonism between her husband and Michele. She meets Jacques who lives nearby and with his help she is able to come to terms with several issues regarding her family and Laura, her estranged daughter.