Robert is an American man currently living on a farm in an Italian small town. Every morning, he wakes up to fix things around the house and tend to the plants. One day, a young boy from the town who recently lost his father, Giuseppe, asks Robert about his own father. Robert says that his family is old, and that he no longer lives with his father because he is an adult. Later that day, Robert receives news that his boyfriend, Alex, who is from the town he’s currently in, will be arriving later that night. Giuseppe and Robert go to welcome Alex back home. Once he’s settled, Alex makes fun of how Robert does so much unnecessary labor for the families in the town. Robert says it’s good to work. Later, Robert is called by Giuseppe’s mother, the widow, over. She mentions how they have been having trouble tending to their crops ever since her husband died; Robert volunteers himself and Alex to help. They spend the day in the field, talking about communism, before eating a dinner that the widow cooks. As they’re back home, a drunk Robert tells Alex that he wants to move back to Boston to work to honor his father.