Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
An Aikido master, a wood expert, but also a knife maker and even a chef. Different people and different lives, scattered between the tatami panels and the heat of a furnace, who find an unexpected meeting point in Bushido.