故事发生在20世纪末的意大利,青年安哲罗(卢克·科比 Luke Kirby 饰)出生在一个典型的意大利家庭之中,而从很早的时候起,安哲罗就发现了自己与他人的不同之处,他是一名同性恋者。然而,这个秘密是绝对不能够被曝光的,否则等待着他的将会是非常悲惨的命运。 想要做回真正 的自己的安哲罗决定从家中搬出去独自居住,之后邂逅了曾经的好友尼诺(彼得·米勒 Peter Miller 饰),没过多久,相互看对了眼的两人就走到了一起。经过了非常激烈的内心挣扎,安哲罗终于决定向家人们坦白自己的性取向,哪知道引发了一场空前绝后的风波,更糟的是,尼诺也因此而被吓跑了。Angelo Barberini is the oddball son of Italian immigrants Gino and Maria, who inadvertently ended up in Canada rather than the States. Angelo shocks his parents by moving out on his own without getting married, and shocks them further still when he reveals that he's gay. But his boyfriend, policeman Nino Paventi isn't as ready to come out of the closet -- especially not to his busybody mother, Lina.