The film recounts the voyage of a cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea. The Colour of the Wind sets out to capture and relate the different realities of the Mediterranean, delving into its foods and its streets, encountering peoples and cultures, mingling past and present. Every stop is a city, every city a story: Barcelona, Tanager, Bari, Sousse/Beirut, Lampedusa (Sicily), Istanbul, Dubrovnik, Genova.