Matteo, a 25-year-old student who suffers from panic attacks and is a skilled billiard player, lives in Rome, together with his friends Sandro, a gambler, and Nicola. In the neighborhood there is also Dr. Carlo, a local boss, with his son Pistacchietto, a twenty-year-old drug addict. One day, Sandro challenges Dr. Carlo by losing three rentals and, to fix things, involves Matteo in a game of billiards against the boss. The stakes are Matteo's mother's machine, promptly lost by the boy. However, the situation takes a bad turn when the three friends find Pistacchietto's body in the trunk of the car. With the car towed away by local police on the pedestrian crossing, Matteo, Sandro and Nicola will have three days to recover it, get rid of the corpse and pay off the debt with Dr. Carlo.