Franco Larrese, a middle-aged gray man, is diagnosed with a terminal illness that will end his life in months. Freed from all pressure, he throws his life overboard and murders a powerful gangster, only to learn later that the result of the medical study had a typing error. Completely healthy and chased by traffickers, he realizes that the real terminally ill, Franco LaRese, may be his only key to escape this sentence. R is the story of an ordinary man who trades one death sentence for another.