Calin Cassian (alias Papo) is a gypsy migrated in Italy since he was a child, now a man 65 years old, living in a countryside of Milan now marginalized, and, since the beginning survives stealing wallets at the crossroads and begging.
He has adopted from a niece, two orphan kids, Rube e Natha, teaching them the art of the little burglaries in the street. Trying desperately to survive, the two kids run away from their tutor Papo looking for a life free from obligations and constraints, but while Calinn is looking anxiously for them, the two kids strive among requests of begs and bad ended burglaries till repenting and looking for Papo again. The story, which takes place amid glimpses of an often unexpected Milan and digital animations which keep the audience's eyes riveted to the screen, has a bittersweet ending which impresses with the daintiness and originality with which the themes of integration and social rejection are handled.