Felice is a twenty-year-old boy from a working-class neighbourhood. He buys a grand piano with money from a loan shark and with the help of his friend Luca and Noemi he plays in the squares of Calabria for passers-by and tourists. The security guard Enzo, after an argument, destroys the piano in a thousand pieces. Pursued by loan sharks, he finds himself in the back of a church where he is given a jacket and tie and sent to the altar in front of the dead man's relatives. He begins to make a speech in commemoration of a deceased person that he doesn't even know, but his words flow spontaneously, cleanly, moving and exciting. After that speech he will become the funeral boy, the orator.
