It is the 1950s and Rome is a city full of life, music and desire. It is the place that Serafina has always known, sharing a tiny apartment with her mother and sisters, surviving on little, but supporting each other. When they get the chance, the sisters go singing in the nearest piazza, busking for spare change and cinema tickets. The girls long to meet their matinee idols It is the 1950s and Rome is a city full of life, music and desire. It is the place that Serafina has always known, sharing a tiny apartment with her mother and sisters, surviving on little, but supporting each other. When they get the chance, the sisters go singing in the nearest piazza, busking for spare change and cinema tickets. The girls long to meet their matinee idols and Serafina daydreams of Mario Lanza and his spellbinding voice. But the sisters grow up quickly and Serafina is soon faced with a choice between the world she knows and the life she dreams of...