Palermo, January 1st, 2022: Following a brutal Civil War, triumphant Alba Futura soldiers enter Palermo to jubilant scenes but celebration turns to fear and doubt when they declare that the city is to be emptied. In the midst of the chaos is Marco, (19) an idealistic and privileged “populist” and his sister, Isabella (17) a school girl studying for her dance audition. They try to find their parents amongst the violence, as Palermo is forcibly evacuated by brutal Alba Futura cadres. But their parents are nowhere to be found, and their house is occupied by cadres. The loudspeakers declare that the city will be emptied for three days only. Marco and Isabella decide to wait it out in Palermo.

Days have turned into months. The siblings survive as ghosts in the abandoned city by scavenging at night, hiding in the shadows. Despair is a greater threat than hunger. Marco tries to protect his sister from the horrors he witnesses in the city. But Isabella is slowly succumbing to despair and even Marco’s attempts to cheer her ring hollow. Isabella kills a Alba Futura cadre in self-defense when their hiding place is discovered, and she realizes that surviving is not enough. She adopts the uniform of the AF, and thoughts of survival change to ones of resistance, just as her brother discovers that their parents are dead.

Broken by his experiences, Marco stays in their new hideout making plans to escape by raft across the sea to Tunisia, while Isabella has given up any thought of things going back to how they were. She leaves their hiding place dressed as an Alba Futura cadre to single out and kill her oppressors. When a captured cadre gives up the imminent route of the AF leader, Antonio Romano, motorcade, Isabella and Marco must decide: hide, run, or attack; a move that will likely lead to their own deaths. Dressed now the same army fatigues and adopting tactics out of necessity that mirror those of the Alba Futura, have they become the same as the regime they are fighting?