A young Italian stops at a filling station on the freeway, and having some time to kill, telephones a friend. He recounts his adventures as a gigolo, but in doing so as a sudden awareness causes him to reconsider certain values that had escaped him, bringing him face-to-face with himself...

Bertrand is a 12-year-old runaway kid who meets Boris, a strange man who saves him from trouble, after he tries to steal something to eat in a supermarket. An odd relationship ensues.