A filmmaker (delightfully played by Moretti himself) is distracted by the impending birth of his first child and the possibility of the election of Italy’s first left-wing government. Caught up in his own indecision, anxiety, and egotism, he postpones his current production—a musical about a Trotskyite pastry chef—and turns his camera alternately to the political turmoil and the blessed event, investigating them both with a joyful, self-deprecating humor. The brilliant mixture of documentary and fiction contributes to this comic meditation on conflicts between the personal and the political, adulthood and infancy.