In the darkness of a cell, in a criminal asylum, a man and his apparitions try to reconstruct a forgotten past. Flashes of everyday life mix with memories, fantasies, lucubrations and nightmares. It is a timeless wait, punctuated by occasional yet habitual encounters with a prostitute, dreamer and innocent, by the accurate teachings of a butcher, greedy for harmonies, and by the litanies of a holy mother of Neapolitan origins, iconic and ironic at the time same.