On an August evening in 1996, at the Ventotene house where journalist Sandro Molino spent his holidays, his partner Cecilia shared with him the news of her pregnancy. Today, Altiero Molino, now a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur, returns to Ventotene with his husband, a male model, to gather their father’s old friends and provide him with a final vacation in this cherished place. Unexpectedly, they discover the island in excitement over the wedding of Sabry Mazzalupi and her fiancé Cesare: once a clumsy girl and daughter of the Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, Sabry has transformed into a web celebrity, and her wedding has become a high-profile event attracting media attention and mysterious representatives of the new political power. These events bring together two factions of vacationers representing seemingly irreconcilable facets of Italy, destined to reunite on Ferragosto for what promises to be a decisive encounter.