Antonio left Naples many years ago and built a successful career and family life in Milan. He escaped not only from his hometown, but also from his mother Angela, a woman extreme in both her virtues and flaws: irresistible, deeply opinionated, conservative, and fiercely confrontational. Now she has arrived for Christmas and seems determined to stay. What begins as a Christmas Eve dinner soon turns into an emotional battlefield, at once comic and merciless, bringing years of misunderstandings, resentment and old wounds to the surface. A fierce emotional confrontation unfolds between mother and son, but also with a stubborn capon that refuses to end up in the cooking pot; with the anticipation of a daughter who may never arrive; and with a guest as distinguished as he is unexpected. This reckoning between mother and son will forever change the meaning of their relationship. It is a love that burns like an unquenchable fire - one that no distance and no separation can ever extinguish.