With AGATA, Soldini returns to comedy, and to his BREAD AND TULIPS muse, Neapolitan actress Licia Maglietta. And it is she who glues together this ramshackle but never less than original story of overlapping mid-life crises. Agata runs a bookshop in Genoa, complete with odd customers and odder assistants. Her brother is a high-powered architect whose yuppie self-assurance begins to crumble when he discovers a secret from his past.