A doctor, Mori, chooses Annetta as the nanny for his first child.
Annetta is a young woman he spots in a railway station amongst hand cuffed deported subsersives. The woman looks in good health and suitable for the job. In fact, Annetta, who immigrated at the beginning of the century, is not just a ” milk machine ” but a young woman with an inner life, objects of affection and her own story. Her personality and her relationship with the child will compromise the family stability, especially in relation to the natural mother Vittoria, who in desperation will leave the house as ” it’s best for her son “…