Claudio, a novelist with a writer's block returns to Eboli in southern Italy from Milan. Eboli is the hometown of his grandmother Berta, the city that represents the gate of the South for Carlo Levi in Christ stopped at Eboli. In the city Claudio comes across the legend of Scorzamauriello, a kind of goblin a bit 'good and a bit' spiteful that will lead him into a mythical World of memories, traditions, folklore,anthropological knowledge and lots of imagination.