1946, Santa Maria al Bagno, Puglia. Four thirteen-year-old boys – Tommaso, Umberto, Marcello, and Giovanni – know only the scorched countryside, the brambles, and the pine forests of their homeland. To them, the sea is merely a distant horizon. But when Marcello discovers a man’s corpse half-hidden in the undergrowth, the four friends are thrust into a world entirely unknown to them – one that leads to a British-run refugee camp inhabited by Holocaust survivors. Paradoxically, it is a land of abundance to the boys – filled with food and medicine. Their desperate need and the temptation of the resources catapult them into a heist to steal the medicine, yet, they have no idea what awaits them.
