A director is in need of repair as an artist and as a man, 50 years old, in the wake of some dreams and some of the pressures of an actress friend and mother. Taking advantage of digital technology at hand, he begins 30 years after the death of his father, a documentary film about his life: a Southern digger who later became a laborer in Turin. The son director attempts to reconstruct the puzzle of the simple life of his father, his relationships with him and his family.