In 1969 Architect Vittorio Gregotti designed the Zen area in Palermo, aiming at an innovative housing style in order to dive the outskirts of Palermo into modernity, in a time when Italy’s economy was developing and thriving.

Forty years later, Director Ruggero Gabbai enters the neighborhood and its inhabitant’s homes. While collecting their testimonies, he realizes that the gap which divides the Milanese architect’s intentions and the actual social impact that his project had: ZEN is a neglected island and the daily life of who lives there is a solitary struggle full of humanity.