The film, a sort of surreal fantasy fairy-tale permeated of legend, is set in the eighteenth century and is about the story of a men-only familyn living in a large and isolated house in the middle of the valleys. The old father raised his four sons all by himself, without the help and support of a woman. During a summer night a miracle happens: a beautiful and young woman, Olimpia, knocks on their door. The girl is welcomed by the five men who soon fall in love with her and decide to mar her altogether. Actually this is an ancient rural ritual according to which a father and his sons can marry the same woman and live with her forever. The day after the wedding Olimpia vanishes mysteriously.
Here follow the words used by Pupi Avati to describe the moment when he finally found the perfect house for the film together with his collaborators Cesare Bastelli and Cesare Bornazzini: “A whole week spent in the valleys, along the white roads, getting on and off production cars, looking for a house in the middle of the waters that would be the centre of the plot. It seemed impossible to find it, it seemed non-existent. Then, on the last night, before leaving for Rome, resigned to the idea of falling back on other far less satisfactory solutions, the two Cesare and I went for a walk along a grass-covered bank. It was getting dark and the water colour was also turning black. We kept walking while the sun was going down. And then all of a sudden I saw it and shouted: “here it is!”

LOCATION The film was shot in the Valli Cantone and Bertuzzi, where the large farmhouse used for the film set.