Simone, eleven and lost his mother, lives with his father in the Abruzzo countryside in the early eighties. It's summer and, since most of his friends are on holiday, Simone spends time with Lorenza, a girl two years older, and especially with imaginary figures created by his imagination. This imagination, too externalized, forcing his father to close it in the house. But the boy did not give in and manages to escape in search of '' Man match, "the most remarkable among the creatures sprung from his mind of the child.