Lucio is a young man in his early 20s from the hard outskirt of Turin. He is solitary and hostile. He works in a tyre service station where he also lives and where they push drugs as well.
Hassan is an aged Moroccan immigrant, who survives doing little illegal traffics in the same outskirts.
The need to get out of troubles forces Lucio and Hassan to leave together on an old jeep to reach the Sahara desert. Hassan has to take the car there in order to sell it to the Bedouins. Meanwhile Lucio will be his bodyguard during the trip. It is an unwelcome and dangerous task, that will lead Lucio to challenge himself and to discover an unknown world.