This short documentary describes a day in the life of a peasant family Lucania. The parents go to the fields and leave their 10 year old girl take care of numerous children.
A text taken from Lucrezio's "De rerum natura" (The plague in Athens) is illustrated with a collage of images mainly shot in the slaughterhouse in Rome.
Inspired freely by some passages from Kafka's "The Process", it is an attempt to reconstruct the obsessive atmosphere of the work of the Prague author. It is set in Rome's bleak courthouse.
