A composer living in the Tuscany countryside with his dog (the eponymous Timoleon) allows a handsome but mysterious Bosnian (or maybe not Bosnian, actually) to become his live-in lover. But he and Timoleon don`t get along, and the dog soon finds himself adrift in the back alleys of Rome--but always, like Lassie in LASSIE COME HOME, on the road back to where he belongs.