In the background of a Turin in a post-industrial transition and a semi-depopulated Calabria, a family of immigrants undertakes a double identity journey to look for the causes that led to their uprooting to the North during the Italian economic boom.
Tullio, a former trade unionist and ex-worker in the Fiat Nord section of Turin, takes on the role of a 'Pavesian Ulysses' who, with his Fiat 126, drives through the Stilaro Valley, his place of origin, in a constant motion of rediscovery. He is accompanied by Rita, his wife, a 'cummara' emancipated in the north, but closely tied to the traditions of her land.
Tullio and Rita meet characters from a forgotten Calabria whose stories intertwine with the places and memories of a distant Turin. Between symbolism, the dream world and the real world, they travel through the shadowy areas cast in time by the great wave of Italian migration, through the dual gaze of those who left without ever leaving.