"... three horses one man," says a song from the Apennines. If this is the duration allotted to a man, Mimo has spent the first two "horses" of his life on the other side of the world. Young and in love, he followed his beloved Dvora to Argentina, and when she was murdered, he threw himself into the armed struggle against the dictatorial regime. Hunted, he descended to the depths of Latin America, learning geography in reverse, to conclude that the South is the hat and not the shoes of the world.
Now, back in Italy, and while riding the "third horse" of his life, Mimo, who works as a gardener, meets Laila, a young prostitute. The feeling that flares up between them and the suffocating threat of her pimp awaken in him a familiar dilemma from his passionate, bloody past: do you kill or let others kill? Until Selim, the African friend with the mystical code of life, provides an unexpected solution.