Halfway between Venice and the glassblowing island of Murano sits San Michele, the walled cemetery island where the city has buried its dead since the early 19th century. The film visits the graves of famous residents, including Ezra Pound, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Diaghilev, Joseph Brodsky, Luigi Nono, and Emilio Vedova, and follows the groundskeepers who tend the plots day after day. It also finds unexpected life among the tombs: members of the association La Laguna nel Bicchiere, or The Lagoon in a Glass, work to revive forgotten vineyards on Venice's islands, including one planted in the novitiate garden of the former Camaldolese monastery on San Michele itself. Interviews with caretakers, historians, and vineyard volunteers build a picture of an island that is less a place of silence than a working part of Venetian daily life. The camera moves between rows of headstones, the lagoon waters, and grapevines, tracing how a cemetery became one of the city's more surprising sites of ongoing cultivation.