After a serious accident Giuseppe is out of work. His son Antò dreams of being an archaeologist and thinks his father's glass eye is a sign he has superpowers. It's just the two of them now, since their beloved wife and mother Angela collapsed and died while working in the fields. Now they've lost their home, too, and have taken shelter in a tent city with other seasonal workers. Through all this, Giuseppe still summons up the strength to hug his son every night and tell him a story. He's promised Antò he will have his mother back, one day, and will do anything to keep his promise.

Vera, a forty-year-old woman of Romanian origin, finds herself unemployed once again and is forced to move Kali, a young Nigerian girl, from one city to another across sun-scorched Sardinia: a seemingly simple ‘task’ turns into a journey that lasts a lifetime.