Cagliari of the 1940s is like a sprawling metropolis for those coming from a country village. Annetta arrives there just as Italy enters the war and the Allies start their bombing raids.

Annetta kept the inherited secret of mercy killing passed down through her mother. In her ancestral Sardinian world, she is the Accabadora: despite her young age, she is a strong woman compelled to live her life handling with the death under the severity of an ancient ritualism. But the II World War is bringing deep social changes, helping Annetta to go beyond the purgatory of her condition discovering the unexplored path of love.