The film follows a gang of youths who spend every day collecting scrap metal from derelict houses. They live in Pozzuoli, an old fishing village which has repeatedly been hit by earthquakes.
The story of the painful initiation of an adolescent into the world of adults in the outskirts of Rome.
Two genocides: the first perpetrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1995; the second, in ex-Zaire, is the killing by Tutsi of the Hutu who escaped Rwanda.