In a small town in central Italy, strange events and phenomena happen to all the people who come into contact with the local lake.

After the Second World War, in 1948, a new one breaks out between Ruffano and Supersano, two villages located in the Salento region, in the province of Apulia, Italia, when the rivalry between the two local football teams goes too far.

Elvira, a 70 year rich and spoiled bourgeois womans and Antonio, a rough plumber of twenty years are united in a majestic 900’s Art Nouveau villa by a great love for art and painting. Elvira invests in Antonio’s talent to launch him as a painter but in a crescendo of passion and anger, an unusual destiny awaits them.