In a city of Tuscia (Lazio), Luciana has a stable job in a weaving factory, and is in love with Stefano. Meanwhile, the shy policeman Antonio comes to the city, transferred from Verona after an unfortunate incident during his service. Luciana, because of her pregnancy, is fired from the factory, and she begins a very difficult period of financial straits. Antonio, meanwhile, suffers the harassment of his colleagues, and is absent-minded at work because of the remorse for the death of a friend of him during a military operation. Stefano, pressed by the difficult situation, has a relationship with a friend of Luciana. Luciana sinks ever deeper into despair, and decides to aim an attack at the office of the factory, against his former employer.