L'ultimo scugnizzo

A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.

Cainá is a young peasant who lives in a small village in Sardinia together with her goats and parents. She is a wild and free spirit and unconventional for any small and closed communities dominated by old rules. Cainà yearns to escape from such a closed atmosphere and the isolated island, so, as an old tune says: "Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere, waiting for me…"; When a boat arrives to the island, she will do her best to flee away from her little oppressing village and experience new adventures in the continent with the help of the boat captain.

A silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".

The Italian colonial war in Libya as seen through the dream of a child who's father in at the front.