Delia wakes up every morning with a slap from her husband Ivano. She rises up, prepares breakfast for their three sons, empties her bedridden father-in-law's urinal, and then leaves the house to confront, relentlessly, her daily routine, made up of various underpaid jobs (repairing linens, adjusting umbrellas, hanging sheets), useful to scrape together some money that is never enough. The whole day, she continues to get slaps from all sides. Because Delia isn’t only poor, she is also a woman.