Calogero is an ordinary guy who has made an extraordinary decision. He is Sicilian and sells granitas for a living; one day he witnesses a mafia murder and decides to bear testimony. Thus, under the witness protection program, he is hustled away to Sauris, in Friuli, a small village where the people are friendly but hard to understand. In the meantime, the killer he was going to testify against has become an informer and, through an administrative error, he, too, is sent to the same village, under the same false name.