The hottest summer of the twentieth century.. In a tiny community of five houses enclosed by wheat fields the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring an uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dare not tell anyone about it. To come to terms with what he has found, Michele has to draw strength from his own sense of humanity...