Gianni is a seventy-three-year-old man who has lived in isolation from the outside world for almost thirty years. Gianni is nobody, but he's not just anyone. He's the village idiot, the one the kids yell at and throw stones at his window. He's the last man standing in a village of the last. Gianni is also a man who, through decades of silence, has summoned the strength to utter what appears to be a delicate and fragmented cry for life. The particular intimacy of his story blends with the detachment of a man who claims to have been merely a spectator of his own life, making his point of view an omniscient voice that touches the lives of each of us.