Set in 1970s Rome, the fiction tracks the plight of a nuclear family, consisting of an unhappy married couple: Clara (a deeply dissatisfied expatriate Spaniard) and Felice (an abusive businessman cheating on Clara with his secretary) and their children Adriana, Gino, and Diana. Their eldest child, 12-year-old Adriana, experiences gender dysphoria; he rejects girlhood and instead goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian). Andrea develops a crush for Sara, a Roma girl who knows him as a boy. Upon a shared sense of being outsiders, Andrea and Clara grow closer.
Clara
Adri/Andrea
Felice
Bisnonna
Ada
Donna Pía
Molester #1
Molester #2
Gino
Sara
María
Diana
Marina
Nonna
Bisnonno
Alberto
Dottoressa
2000-08-25
1990-09-12
1994-10-05
1970-09-09
1979-01-24
2019-04-29
1953-08-26
1952-01-20
1936-02-21
2019-03-01
1951-04-27
2019-06-22
2005-02-14
1972-12-01
1972-03-20
2005-12-23
2004-02-05
2000-09-28
2000-05-04
1999-04-16