Castel Volturno, about thirty kilometers from Naples. It is September 18, 2008. A group of Camorra members burst into a tailor's shop run by African immigrants. They fire a hundred bullets indiscriminately, killing six young black men and seriously wounding another. Yussouf, a young immigrant, decided that same evening to settle the score with his uncle Moses. The man who convinced him to come to Italy. He had promised him a future as an honest craftsman but instead turned him into the cynical manager of a million-dollar cocaine ring. Entangled in their story are another African boy, Germain, who happened to be at the scene of the massacre; his girlfriend Asetù, who sings a Miriam Makeba song in public that same evening; and Suad, a prostitute whom Yussouf dreams of rescuing from her pimps.

在萨尔沃五岁那一年，他的父亲文森佐（马西莫·波波利齐奥 Massimo Popolizio 饰）锒铛入狱。自幼失去了母亲的萨尔沃沦为了孤儿，被姨母所收养，就此开始了形单影只寄人篱下的生活。一晃眼多年过去，文森佐出狱了，此时的萨尔沃早已经不再是他离开时那个什么也不懂的懵懂孩童了，父子之间的感情因为萨尔沃年岁的增长而产生了极大的裂痕。萨尔沃对文森佐的一切都感到困惑和愤怒，但这些声音最终还是化为了沉默。
文森佐和萨尔沃要前往意大利南部去完成一个任务，在这段不算顺利的旅途之中，他们终于得到了机会，去审视这段支离破碎的亲子关系，去审视他们各自的内心。