The story takes place in the summer of 1980 in Brindisi, Italy. Martino is a young man whose father's not him enough attention. His older brother and his friends, including Silvia, a young northern Italian who spends his holidays in the south of the country and has a romance with brother Martino. Young people tend to enter an American military base north, Martino and ends up finding a US military a good friend who teaches him how to surf.