The story tells of a crucial day in the troubled relationship between two brothers, Elia and Carlo, who have been suffering the psychological consequences of domestic violence suffered when they were just kids.
The protagonists reach the off-season tourist resort where they used to spend their summer holidays with their families, the beautiful Val di Ledro.
Here reside all the most beautiful memories of their childhood but also that terrible memory, that boulder, that they have been carrying around for too long.