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.
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.
"Between Jean Cocteau and Guy Maddin, a masterpiece of mixed media cinema" (La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris - May 2010)