Nicola Contini

Assunta is struck down by a sudden illness and is rescued by her neighbor, Fatima. The old woman survives but on awakening she discovers that the illness has brought back her past, scarred by the creation of the largest military proving ground in Europe which caused the end of her small community.

The last penal colonies in Europe are in Sardinia. Inmates serve their sentences by working the land, tending animals, and maintaining the prison.