The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...
as Guido
as Caligiuri
as moglie dell'evaso
as Antonio
as Mario
as Gino
as moglie di Gino
as Guido's Mother
as zia Lola
as la domestica
as il morto
as Sandrino
as Sandrino's mother
as Elvira
as Murena
as sarta
as zia Delia
as Tecla
as Boris
as Filippo
as Cantoni
as Vittorio
as Narratore
as Sandrino's father
as Gina