In the back of a restaurant some customers go to smoke a cigarette. Actions happen and stories intertwine; some dialogues are created from encounters, others simply happen in the presence of others without relating to them. Sometimes important themes emerge with lightness and irony, but everything always takes place on the surface of lives and in very short times, like the time of a cigarette. A metaphor for a modus operandi that belongs to our social life - where the time of construction is often missing - the film presents moments of life that are sometimes intense but impromptu. The initial action gives movement to all the stories of which the short film is composed and in its final line ironically reveals the colour of all the other stories.