This is about a young man who had left the place where he was born, an alpine village, in search ofa purpose for his life.He became desperately lonely and, like a shipwrecked mariner trying to find his bearings, he returns to the places of his childhood, seeing them through different eyes and trying to find a reason for his exisatance in the people and things that had held him prisoner.Thus in an alppine community, learning on its past and on an uncertain present, the man discover the deep pulse of a story handed down in secret and silence from one generation to an another. A story that resist all the other mundane and showy stories that only offer a fleeting moment in the everyday life of the village.