Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just a game that protects him from their poverty and his motherless condition. It even works, for a while, until Myriam and her daughter Emma arrive, in flight from her abusive husband. And Myriam's not afraid of ghosts…

A family on the brink of crisis decides to escape the city and take refuge in an old farmhouse in the countryside, convinced that returning to nature is the only real solution. But the bucolic dream soon turns into an exhilarating struggle for survival. Escaping the city is easy. Running away from yourself, a little less.