In a plain where fields, rivers, villas, malls, campings, small industrial units, and shacks coexist far from harmoniously, live a father and a son, Rino and the thirteen-year-old Cristiano Tzena. Next to them, two strange creatures, Tesseratiria, whom everyone considers retarded, and Danilo Apria, whom his wife has abandoned after the death of their daughter. One day, the three adults decide to change their lives by robbing a bank. However, their plans will be overturned one terrible stormy night when their fate will intersect with the fate of a beautiful and arrogant girl and where violence will take over because everything in this society leads to violence.

A powerful novel in the form of a multi-person agreement where the dark colors of tragedy are intertwined with abundant doses of humor, and characters that remain engraved in the reader's memory long after the end of reading.
Strega Prize 2007.