Angela de Matteo

Naples, 18th century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food, always upsetting Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius.

One night, Death swoops in and takes the life of a child. His mother will do anything to recover him, even lose all she has.