In a medieval world of frost, fog and famine, Anselmo, an old monk, once loved and now rejected, leaves his hermitage to find a home for the wild, hungry child who torments his loneliness. He encounters a strange boat guided down the Po by a child king, mist monsters, pirates, mermaids, a giant pumpkin, and the devil himself.
The journey home won't be easy. Not without overcoming famine and coming to terms with his past.