The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...
Claudio Bigagli
Antonio Catania
Clelia Rondinella
Stefano Dionisi
Paolo Bonacelli
Orazio Stracuzzi
Ludovica Modugno
Evelina Gori
Vera Furlan
Gina Rovere
Giuseppe Napoli
Matteo Fadda
Carla Benedetti
Stefania Montorsi
Vittorio Viviani
Isa Gallinelli
Maria D'Ajala
Nicoletta Boris
Cesare Gelli
Giacomo Fadda
Maurizio Mattioli
Roberto Stocchi
Gigi Proietti
Stefano Masciarelli
Giovanna Mori