Pentedattilo clings to a mountainside in Calabria, its stone houses emptying out for decades as young Italians leave the region for work. Rossella Aquilanti moved into the ruins in 1983 and never left; now 63, she raises 20 goats and tends a few olive trees, and needs a hand to keep going. She finds one in Maka Tounkara, a farmer from Mali who arrived in Italy by refugee boat and now works alongside her, sending his wages home to support his fiancée. The film follows their daily routine and their unlikely partnership, and visits the one week a year when Pentedattilo fills with visitors again, for a short film festival that draws former residents and tourists willing to climb the steep path up. Rossella and Maka argue that their spare, self-sufficient life is a model other migrants and young Italians could follow, and the last two residents of the village hope their example might bring people back to Italy's abandoned towns.