Wandering in a bleak Rome without any open cinemas, we meet a child and a young girl, both quite disoriented, who are there to fulfill a mission: to recover the remains of an ancient time, a film containing a priceless poetic testimony of the magic of Cinema.
A bizarre Filipino detective chases them, hampered by an intriguing femme fatale and a mean Lolita, who awkwardly tries to anticipate the two girls before they find the coveted film.
The detective discovers that they are headed to an illegal film club hidden in the outskirts of the city, where a wise preceptor of the child, guardian of the secret, possesses the indispensable film specimen. In order to reach their destination and grab
the precious film, needed to give back life to one cinema at least, the girls must return to the same cinemas that have closed down, even if they have left their place to other businesses.
In their place, several heterogeneous dwelling forms of human fauna are unwillingly keeping the spirit of the old cinemas alive, even if they are in an advanced state of abandonment and degradation. During their quest, the girls meet them, and they become spectators of their peculiar forms of protest, finding in those grotesque and surreal situations some vital artistic manifestations. A director decides to document the
facts, reconstructing them through the girl’s experience.
She is the vector at the dawn of a new era.