Eduardo, a Mexican cook in a Coney Island diner who crossed the desert two decades ago, becomes the unsuspecting centre of a story unfolding during the last week of the U.S. presidential campaign. Around him swirl fleeting encounters, patriotic hymns, prayers, accidental violence, tenderness, and landscapes of desperate beauty – an America at once raw and poetic.

Pietro searches for his only brother, whom he hasn't seen for a long time, to compete for the only things that their father, who recently died, left as an inheritance: a gun and a chair. His path will become a journey into a transfigured Sardinia, through its demons and those of contemporary times.