Tough, gripping drama about a committed, principled priest taking on the Mafia and risking his life in a poverty-stricken parish in Naples.

Ottavio Camaldoli is a professor of Latin and Greek. An honest and gentleman, he is considered a "fool" by everyone around him. But what would happen if this defenseless man, a victim of petty daily abuses in his social life, at work, and even at home, were to receive another man's heart transplant? Especially if this other man, the donor, were a brutal criminal with the sinister nickname of "O Barbiere" (The Barber)? Would Ottavio Camaldoli, after inheriting the heart, automatically become a criminal? Science tells us that these are just silly, ancient beliefs. But what if Donna Carmela, the Barber's ruthless mother, were convinced that her son is still alive thanks to the heart now beating in the professor's chest?

April 9, 2009. Alberto, a firefighter marked by a dramatic past, enters a deserted bar during the news broadcast reporting on the destruction and victims of the earthquake in Abruzzo, which occurred three days earlier. Tormented by the memory of a tragic event, he recognizes an old trophy as a symbol of his pain. Arriving in the earthquake zone, Alberto and his colleagues dig through the rubble, aided by a sniffer dog led by Enrico. When the animal signals something unusual, Alberto decides to intervene. That descent into the ruins becomes a challenge that will force him to confront the shadow of a memory that has never truly been buried.