The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.

In a South of Italy full of beauty and hidden dangers, two adolescents, abused and damaged by life, Anna, whose father has been murdered and Basim, an immigrant orphan, escape together towards a new start

Luigi was a kid growing up in a socio-economically deprived family environment. He began dealing with Angelo, an unsuspecting policeman, who seems to show a paternal attitude towards him, but he really has an ulterior motive turbid...he ends up abusing him. When Luigi tries to tell her mother what is happening, she does not want to believe him, his uncle gives helps. Luigi discovers his uncle experienced the same kind of abuse.

Marcello is a Calabrian boy who dreams of becoming a footballer and lives with his mother, Tereza, of Arbëreshë origin, in the popular neighborhood called "Aranceto". During the imminent period of the 1990s World Cup, he meets Andrea Viscomi, a late career footballer, captain of the local football team, U.S.Collidoro. Their lives are intertwined. The friendship with the footballer rekindles in the boy the desire for a father figure that he has never had and in the footballer a forgotten carefree time, which has been lost above all due to his involvement in match-fixing. The coming-of-age novel of Marcello crosses the descending parable of Andrea's career, in the sign of a friendship necessary for both.