Ioan (Eduard Gabia) is an illegal Romanian immigrant, who was come to Rome seeking a better future. Michele (Luca Lionello) is a Roman fortysomething who lives on precarious jobs. They meet, make friends and Ioan accepts Michele’s invitation to share his room with him for 8 euros a day. Together they live through a number of experiences on the very margin of the city, enduring the vexations of a terrible landlady. The back ground of the story is a troubled Western world torn by the fall of the Communist ideology on one side and the Myth of Capitalism on the other. A capitalism whose vital criteria have become competition and the worsening and deepening of social diversities. Their strong friendship helps them to help one another, even if the compromises they have to make deeply affects their lives.