A STREET IN PALERMO

It's a Sunday afternoon. The sirocco wind blows pitilessly upon Palermo when Rosa and Clara, two women arriving to celebrate a friend's wedding, get lost among the city streets and end up in a sort of cul-de-sac: Via Castellana Bandiera. At the same moment, another car, driven by Samira, in which the Calafiore family is packed, comes from the opposite direction and enters the same street. Neither Rosa at the wheel of her Multipla, nor Samira, an elderly and stubborn woman at the wheel of her Punto, intends to give way to the other. While the Calafiore family withdraw into the illegal building where they live and, with the complicity of their neighbors, organize a gamble on which of the two women will prevail, Clara decides to leave the Multipla and continue her discovery of Palermo on the scooter of Nicola, the youngest in the Calafiore family, who willingly escorts her. Evening falls, then nighttime, but the two women, resisting hunger, sleep and thirst, seem to be obeying an irrational obstinacy, as they persist in not yielding way to the other...