Luca Scarparo

Tommaso, simple berger, veille jusqu’au jour de sa mort sur un palais abandonné dans la région de Naples en proie aux pillages et réduit à l’état de décharge par la camorra. Polichinelle émerge alors des profondeurs du Vésuve pour accomplir sa dernière volonté : prendre soin d’un jeune buffle. Ils voyagent ensemble à travers les paysages sublimes de l’Italie. Entre mythe et réalité, une fable sur l’Italie contemporaine, belle et perdue…

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected.

A child of war, born to a Neapolitan girl and an American soldier after World War II, James Senese was raised in the outskirts of Naples, of which he witnessed the transformation from countryside to suburb. In a fifty-year-long career, he has searched for an identity in a changing world, pouring his conflicts into his music. The documentary paints a portrait of the man and the artist, tracing the beating heart of his trajectory back to the formation of the band Napoli Centrale in the early Seventies, and investigating the latest evolution of that musical endeavor.