In a country in Southern Italy, on the border between Campania and Lucania, a baron reduced to poverty tries to give order to events: what has happened in recent years? It all seems to have started with the double disappearance of a woman and her elderly husband during a magic show. Stories and memories stratify and interpenetrate each other, leading to the political and temporal collapse of that magical world, which fades into an indistinct memorial abyss and fades into an underground escape, in time.

After his highly successful escape to Sardinia, Mr. Imbruttito returns to his native Milan, but within a short time, the company he has always worked for is acquired by a powerful American multinational, Blacksun. The new owners also promote a business model that is highly inclusive and sustainable. Mr. Imbruttito will lose his job, his home, and his family, finding himself forced to make ends meet by working as a delivery driver—precisely the very thing he always despised as a manager.