Synopsis

Domenico is twelve years old and has always lived in the village where he was born, at the foot of the Dolomites. The mountains are his world, and this world holds no secrets for him. He enjoys gazing at the peaks on his way to school, where his teacher tells him about Tom Sawyer, and he loves walking through the woods on his way to the stream to fish, dreaming of extraordinary adventures. He continues to do so even though everyone has been warning him for some time, because the risk of encountering the much-talked-about bear is great. A bear that has become a legend in the valley: terrifying, gigantic, ferocious, unlike anything seen in those parts anymore. And he can't believe that his father, always so distant, drunk, and lost, is the same man who now wants to hunt the bear and wants to go on that expedition into the mountains with him, just the two of them, away for days and days in contact with a harsh, wild nature. But that's exactly what will happen. Domenico will be involved in a unique, frightening and exciting experience, from which he will learn that nature, however dangerous, will never be as cruel as humans.