An old city, an old palace, an old apartment. Pietro lives there, wearily, until his regular and solitary daily life is not devastated by an eviction order. The elder does not want to leave and devises a strategy to continue to live secretly inside the house. His eyes, during the day, spy on intruders (the owner, potential new tenants). His hands, at night, score small sabotages. The fear of being discovered becomes an obsession and everything makes him feel threatened: a shadow, a crunch. Then, one day, "the enemy" really comes: it is a desperate mother who wants to guarantee a roof for her daughter ...