A disenchanted young shepherd's world is torn apart when his father is unjustly incarcerated for a murder he didn't commit.
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...
After his resurrection, Christ stayed on the Earth with Peter and now he is old. In the streets of Cagliari he finds a young whistler who lost intonation. He would like to help him but he does not remember how to make miracles anymore, so, he seeks the help of a costly charlatan. The last miracle will happen in front of the sea: the whistle will come back in tune but nothing will ever be the same.
