Lizard - the lizard child - is at home in Italy and in the host country. Here it has to hide: under the sideboard, in the closet, under the sofa. In Ripa, however, the boy chases wasps like all children, gliding from one embrace to another. There, at Nonna Assunta's, where a house awaits completion. Here in the host country, the father goes to work on the construction site day by day, the mother goes to the factory - the lizard child lets hours and days pass by. It misses the apartment with its steps, hears the neighbors asking for flour, sees the children playing tag in the yard, and notices the boots of the landlord, who likes to come for dinner and stay long. Until one day it dares to make secret forays into the stairwell, into other apartments, where no one suspects the presence of the lizard child. Only Emmy, the girl who has just moved into the third floor, gives.