A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

Inviolata, a secluded country estate in the Italian nowhere. Here, the Marquesa Alfonsina de Luna rules her farm workers with a harsh hand. Lazzaro is one of them, a young man so good-natured, tolerant and innocent that he could be mistaken for simple-minded.