On Filicudi, a volcanic island in the Aeolian archipelago,
a marine biologist, together with a team of female
assistants, has founded an emergency centre for marine
animals, specialising in Caretta Caretta turtles, which once
nested throughout the archipelago. Their presence is
resented by local fishermen, who cannot accept having
lost their traditional claim to the sea and the taste
of turtle meat.
In their journeys to protect the ocean, both above and
below the surface, the women experience the pull of
sea and air currents, come into contact with the island’s
ancestral beliefs – collected by an anthropologist – and
become the protagonists of a metamorphosis that is
both real and imagined. The turtle rescue leads to an
extraordinary outcome, revealed in its full magnificence
only through satellite technology.