The film focuses on the search for an imaginary Abel, the shepherd, an archaic and emblematic figure in human history - contemporary witness of almost invisible communities on the fringes of borders, villages and territories.
Between Sardinia and Palestine, two geographically distant but equally central places in the history of pastoralism from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, the film encounters the lives of shepherds surviving on the borders of a military polygon, in a deconsecrated church and in the West Bank desert controlled by the Israeli army. From the island-continent, Sardinia, to the deserts of Jericho and Bethlehem, the shadow of a permanent war appears.
At times, Abel emerges from a distant land, Palestine. There, he expresses his struggle for survival in society. In the Judah desert, the bedouin community lives in Area C, a part of the West Bank under Israeli control since the Oslo Accords, where Palestinian Bedouins have lived for hundreds of years, now forced into constant displacement, demolition and violence.
Abele's search subtends the archetype of the conflict, the tale of a universal resistance of the shepherd men, in a narrative spiral that does not find solutions but investigates the signs of a peculiar human condition.