A young intellectual named Pier Paolo learns from Margherita, his colleague and poetess, that he has been appointed "Master of Holy Week" by the municipality. After meeting Giovanni, a beautiful homeless boy, Pier Paolo begins his surreal journey through bucolic and popular scenery, typical of the South, which becomes a mirror of his soul. He will fight, thus, against the incarnations of desire in order to find his own spirituality.

A long-standing friendship put to the test: Andrea honors Luca, his friend who committed suicide, with a gesture of defiance and madness during his wake.