The film follows a gang of youths who spend every day collecting scrap metal from derelict houses. They live in Pozzuoli, an old fishing village which has repeatedly been hit by earthquakes.
A film of great contrasts, made up of blinding light, of solar skies but also shadows. Between these two worlds, torn between opposing forces, Anna starts a real revolution in her life.
The story of a housewife who, in order not to go mad, commits her pain to four notebooks. It is also the story of her slow but lucid and life-affirming liberation from a marriage that was suffocating her freedom.