On the Tanua Island, the shaman announces the approach of the Nagol Ritual. Sowa, a young dreamy Melanesian, has to honor her father and the ancestral traditions. But she doesn’t feel ready to face the consequences of this challenge.

During Napoleonic wars, a young idealistic drummer, in search of glory, arrives on the battlefield and discovers the horrors of war.

On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.