When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.

Sergio Castellitto
as Giancarlo Iacovoni

Margherita Buy
as Agata Iacovoni

Alice Teghil
as Caterina Iacovoni

Federica Sbrenna
as Daniela Germano

Margherita Mazzola
as Martina

Carolina Iaquaniello
as Margherita Rossi Chaillet

Martina Tasquetta
as Alessia

Galatea Ranzi
as Livia, Margherita's mother

Silvio Vannucci
as Fabietto Cruciani

Alessandra Celi
as Mrs. Germano