A man must be strong

Gardone Val Trompia is a concrete slab at the bottom of a narrow valley: Valtrompia is a string of urban centers that arose around factories in a time of uncontrolled industrialization.

Jack is twenty-eight years old, born and raised in the valley, and has remained there ever since. He has a fixed-term job, a mother who retired when he was thirty-two, and an older brother who moved to the Milanese hinterland to work as a laborer. Jack's father passed away when he was just three, when everyone still called him Jessica.

Now Jack has decided to face the transition path female to male to finally become what he always felt he was: a man.

In a routine of odd jobs, bar friends and few pastimes, Jack begins to question what it means, beyond the body, to be a man and what kind of man to be, starting to question the models of masculinity offered by the valley in which he lives..