Pietro e un ragazzino di citta, solitario e un po\" scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di periferia, e farsi carico degli altri e il suo talento. Il padre e un chimico, un uomo ombroso e affascinante, che torna a casa ogni sera dal lavoro carico di rabbia....

From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the Italian Alps The remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who has left the city of Milan behind, and with it his relationship....

Pietro, a lonely city boy, spends his summers in a secluded valley in the Alps. There, surrounded by meadows and peaks, he begins to learn of his father\"s dreams and passions. There, too, he meets Bruno, the son of a local stonemason. As the pair run wild, they form a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. Then one year, the summer visits stop....