A large and friendly Italian family wants to know the secret of the birth of their Elena — a happy wife and mother. The woman has never seen her father in her life, but she knows that he was a poet from the city of Privolye. However, in this city they claim that they do not know such a poet. But they remember the patient of the local psychiatric clinic… Did Elena's mother deceive her daughter and her entire Italian family with a beautiful story about her father?