Laura participates in terrorist attack against a magistrate; a member of her commando is shot to death. Such begins the story of women: Maria and Rosa, the mother and sister of the killed terrorist; Gina, the old nanny of Laura; her mother Marta and Renata, her friend; and finally Giuliana, the magistrate before whom the terrorist will reveal her secret. And Laura will be the common thread that links each of the personal stories, determining their destiny, sometimes tragic, and discovering silence and complicity that does not seek.