The Gift follows the daily life of a village in Calabria, which had thousands of people, but today there are few left: its inhabitants seem to simply wait the time to pass. An old man lives alone on a farm. He is suddenly confronted with modernity when two workers forget a mobile phone at his house, as well as a pornographic picture taken from the internet.
A girl who is believed to be possessed by some demon offers her beautiful body without tenderness to the assaults of a bunch of motorists who stop to give her a ride.
A store opens its curtains without having any customers and so on...