A teenage girl with leukemia and a fellow patient embark on a journey to locate her estranged father, who is her only matching donor for a marrow transplant.

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.