An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

Nanni Moretti
as Giovanni

Margherita Buy
as Paola

Silvio Orlando
as Ennio

Barbora Bobuľová
as Vera

Mathieu Amalric
as Pierre

Jerzy Stuhr
as Jerzy

Zsolt Anger
as Direttore del circo

Teco Celio
as Psicoanalista

Valentina Romani
as Emma

Flavio Furno
as Edoardo