Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.

In a lagoon suspended in time, legend has it that sooner or later every inhabitant loses the toenail of their right big toe.

I'm twenty. I need to be scared of things.