Every September, more than a hundred men in Viterbo carry the Macchina di Santa Rosa, a sculpture nearly 30 meters tall, through the old town's narrow streets in honor of the city's patron saint. The film follows 13-year-old Stella, the first girl admitted to the Mini-Macchina club that trains future bearers, as she prepares to take on the steep climb to the Santuario di Santa Rosa for the first time. Her father David backs her ambition, while her cousin Matteo represents the tradition's older, male-only expectations. Gianni Baiocco, chairman of the Mini-Macchina association and a bearer himself, explains why he opened the ranks to girls two years ago, framing it as a way to keep the ritual alive in a town losing young people rather than as an abandonment of custom. DW cameras capture the parade day tension as Stella attempts the climb, and interviews with residents and bearers lay out how far this centuries-old, male-dominated tradition is willing to bend without breaking.