Puglia, 1950s. Nena, a young teacher engaged to a boy from the local aristocracy, receives her first teaching job in a rural community in the Brindisi area. He will find a remote school on a plateau, ungovernable kids, people with whom he has nothing in common, a hostile nature. The directorial debut of Giorgia Cecere (formerly Amelio's assistant and screenwriter for Winspeare) is an unusual and surprising film.
“The journey into a sort of Wild West of the feelings of a young woman who is not inclined to obey the rules. The dryness of Isabella Ragonese is already an aesthetic statement, in a stripped-down film where the gaze follows the materiality of the environments, of things, of faces, and where even the words seem to be made of rock or tuff".