Charles, old, wealthy, weighed down by years, meets in a small Swiss station Carlo, young, poor, physically fit, newly immigrated. Charles has a valuable watch in his heavy suitcase, but he urgently needs to go to the bathroom and the train does not arrive. Will he risk leaving it in the custody of the young man looking so unremarkable? At the end an unpredictable twist of the story changes everything.
—Nino Ilacqua