Anita is sixteen and she’s facing a difficult situation: her mother died of leukemia and now Jacopo, her father, is also sick: his need for a bone-marrow transplant is increasingly urgent, but the average waiting period for a donor is many months. Anita isn’t compatible, and neither is Tonino, her grandfather shepherd who lives in the nearby tableland, close to a military base which affect the area since the Sixties. There is uncle Gaetano: being Jacopo’s brother the probability that he is compatible is higher, but Gaetano is a hothead and he and Jacopo haven’t had any relationship at all: an old grudge, which they don’t want to forget, is keeping them apart.

艾米利亞省的波河河畔一直以來都是印度移民聚集區，婆羅門之子克里希那在此地的酪農場擔任擠奶工人。每日與土地和動物接觸，讓他回想起在印度度過的童年，那裡的家人對大自然充滿敬意。波河的潺潺流水讓克里希那聯想到神聖的恒河。他和當地人相處融洽，但回憶、傳統以及個人信念，讓克里希那與周遭環境總是有些不協調。他和一名擔任看護的俄羅斯女孩陷入情網，幸福生活彷彿就要來臨，他卻因個人文化因素而拒絕宰殺不產乳的乳牛，克里希那做出極端的決定，也面對了劇烈的後果，但宿命會帶著他走向平靜心靈。

A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.