Synopsis
The future for a young boy like Jimmy, from Sarroch, a poor town in Sardinia, seems as bleak and inescapable as the giant refinery that has always blocked the wide open sky of his childhood. There are seemingly few choices in life for Jimmy but to follow his father, his brother and all those before them to a life as a worker in the factory. Jimmy falls easy prey to an alluring proposal to commit a hold-up. He is arrested. Just under 18, he is spared serving in an adult men’s penitentiary, though he is sentenced to imprisonment in a facility for minors. Jimmy rebels in rage and is almost guilty of homicide after a dispute with a cellmate. The concerned authorities decide he will be sent to serve out the rest of his sentence to a community for young people. It graces a gentle hilltop where warmth, guidance, friendship and a job may be waiting for him. Jimmy is going to become that unique person he has always wanted to be.