Le conseguenze dell'amore

Lugano, Svizzera. Titta Di Girolamo è un uomo discreto e arcigno che vive da quasi un decennio in una modesta stanza d'albergo, prigioniero di una routine atroce, apparentemente senza scopo. Il suo passato è un mistero, nessuno sa cosa fa per vivere, risponde con risposte evasive a domande indiscrete. Quali segreti nasconde quest'uomo enigmatico?

Titta Di Girolamo is a middle-aged loner who has spent the last eight years living in an upmarket hotel in Lugano, Switzerland. Every day he puts on his suit and wanders around, avoiding contact with people. In the morning, he solves the chess puzzles in the paper and in the evening he plays Grabber with a bankrupt aristocratic couple who are marooned in the hotel they used to own. Occasionally, he rings his family in Italy but his wife is always reluctant to talk, and his grown-up children despise him. He develops feelings for Sofia, the beautiful and stylish waitress at the bar of the hotel but he refuses to speak to her because, in his shyness, he fears that love would complicate his monotone but quiet life.