[1] The film stars Giovanni Capalbo, Angela Fontana, Pippo Delbono, Maia Morgenstern, and guest star Marco Leonardi.
[2] Story and screenplay are by Carlo Longo and Gigi Roccati.
In the Basilicata region of Italy, Rocco, is a severe farmer who fights incessantly for his land, lives with his daughter Lucia, a girl raised like a savage, with no education that has become mute after her mother, Argenzia's death.
The situation completely overturns when Rocco is offered the possibility to earn money in exchange for burying toxic waste in his land.
Rocco and Lucia have to escape and they begin a long journey through a hard and dying land where Rocco will try to find redemption and Lucia, forced to abandon the memory of her mother, will find her voice again and become a woman.