An elderly woman shows the first symptoms of a disease that takes away her memory. Her mind is gradually becoming one long, dark, moonless night. Only her daughter can help her mitigate that darkness, reconstructing her story, but also that marked by a love "that went wrong right away." Unraveling the small and big events of her everyday life brings to the surface sweet but also hard memories, full of life and truth, starting with the birth of her mother Esperia and her five sisters, all daughters of a survivor of the Great War. In Abruzzo, a luminous and inhospitable region that rises up like a mythological and distant land, the work of the fields, the joy of weddings, the coarseness of affections and the end of feminine submission are intertwined with the story of a slow metamorphosis of feelings, in an indissoluble mother-daughter bond that is torn between love and hate, nostalgia and rejection.