The story starts with a man at the top of his game, decades of success as a world-renowned photographer in a moment seemingly beneath him. He sits across a table at a small cafe from hapless film students doing a piece on his career. It’s around the turn of the millennium. They hand him a portfolio of some of his greatest professional highlights, of which he has no love for, only for him to land on the final page to reveal a tattered photo of mysterious subject and an ancient newspaper clipping that seemingly stops him dead in his tracks. We are transported back with Vincent Rondine (Daniele Bertolucci) to his very first photoshoot in the late 70’s. Wide eyed and petrified he paces around an ageing photo studio waiting for his first subjects to show up.  We watch Vincent regain his composure and turn his fear into enthusiasm as he musters up the courage to enter the waiting room where he meets his cobble of unusual models for the day.  From overly-enthusiastic weirdos to oddball perverts to any and all unlikely participants in between we watch Vincent’s new found enthusiasm slowly wane with each shoot until he’s ready to throw in the towel.  Just as he’s about to face the waiting room one last time to cancel the remaining time he finds one last and finally perfect subject. Nicoletta Pettirosso (Giulia Rose) meets a gaze with Vincent. Her confidence and lighthearted/playful demeanour enthralls Vincent and the two begin an intimate dance between the photographer and the subject.