This novel is about the search for familial roots in another culture. From fragments and episodes that the grandson remembers, a picture of the grandfather emerges: the son of poor farmers and tenants who becomes the first mason in Limoli, yet remains, just like his father before him, in lifelong dependence on the Falcetta family. For the Falcetta own the land and the only factory; they own the village. Those who want to escape them emigrate. The grandfather tries to make a life for himself in the cold foreign land, working as a seasonal laborer in Zurich, which will always be called Zurigo by him. His grandchildren later live in that foreign country and only visit their grandfather's house during holidays. The stories he tells them, the images that imprint themselves, become their homeland. In his highly acclaimed debut, Dante Andrea Franzetti processes the intercultural experiences of his generation.