About 650 people live year-round in Switzerland's Onsernone Valley, reached by a 28-kilometer road of hairpin bends, with no supermarket and much of the terrain accessible only on foot. The film follows Josef "Beppe" Savary-Borioli, the valley's 72-year-old doctor, as he tries to secure medical care for the region's future by building a "doctor sharing" model and testing whether a young assistant from Locarno might become his successor. Alongside him, Mike Keller, who grew up in the valley, works to place new families in the roughly 1,200 houses that mostly sit empty as vacation homes. Daniela Huber, a shaman who has moved into her grandmother's house in Berzona with her young son and his father, describes the isolation of off-season life even in one of the valley's most scenic villages, and joins Keller's effort to draw in like-minded newcomers. The film sets these personal efforts against the practical question of what it takes to keep a mountain community alive.