Nurse Anna and her assistant Hans work in an old folks’ home that was once the orphanage where they were imprisoned as children, and they still seem trapped in time and space.

Gio' is a 13 year-old girl living in the south of Italy, head of a boys' gang. She's secretely in love with young Paola, and she's ready to compete with male opponents to win her heart. In the last day of summer, innocence ends.

Sardinia, nowadays. Dal profondo is entirely shot 500 meters below sea level in the Nuraxi Figus coal mine. Patrizia, the only Italian female coal miner, will guide us into most impenetrable places of the last coal mine in Italy and into the souls and stories of her fellow workers.