In the San Francisco of 1919, a man is standing on the ledge of a building ready to jump. Desperate, he relives in his memories the absurd and shocking episode that brought him to the brink of suicide: his encounter with the monstrous and mythological Great Ancient One, DAGON.
A widowed mother, tries desperately to get an entry into the ruthless world of professional football for her 12-yer-old son.
On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. They do not know each other, but when they will set foot on the island, both their lives will change forever: one has to retrieve the bodies of drowned shipwreck victims, the other one has to bury them. A sort of dance between life and death, innocence and its loss.
