A middle-aged woman named Jill goes to pick up her ex-husband Bob from the airport in Rome, Italy. He’s coming to visit her and their seven-year-old daughter Lisa, who adores him completely and makes that known when they arrive back to Jill’s apartment. Bob jokes with Lisa for a bit and she catches him up on her life, including her crush on a boy named Beppe, who she teases with insults all the time. Over the next few days, Jill and Bob maintain a tenuous balance in their co-parenting as he sleeps on the couch and takes Lisa out after school. Jill recalls a time when Lisa was just a baby when they left their woodstove on after an argument, and it set fire to their apartment. Although everything turned out fine and nothing was badly damaged, at that moment they realized they weren’t working together. Bob too reflects on his money troubles due to his art gallery heading towards bankruptcy, although he vows not to become cheap. They go out to dinner, and he stresses over the check as Lisa obliviously taunts him about Jill’s Italian ex-boyfriend. That weekend, Jill accompanies Bob and Lisa to the park, where they start to really argue over the bills. Lisa sees Beppe across a crowded street and starts to shout insults at him, and he starts to run towards them right as a car passes. Jill and Lisa scream, but when the cars clear they see Beppe standing, dragged back by his mother. They cross the street to him and check that he’s alright, and Jill and Bob look at each other, remembering the fire in their building, thinking now they are united in their trouble rather than separated as they were then.