Cagliari in the 1940s is a big city for those who come from a small village. Annetta arrives in the days befpre Italy enters WWII and the Allies begin bombing the city. She's a 25-year old woman, always dressed in black, solitary and quiet, typical of the beauty of those from the most sparse areas of Sardegna.
Jimmy is an 18-year-old boy who is dissatisfied with his life in a small town in Sardinia. He feels he has nothing in common with those who live around him and soon turns to crime, ending up in a reformatory. But it is precisely within those walls, surrounded by reassuring hills, that Jimmy seems to have the chance to redeem himself...
