Orvieto, 1957: Gabriel, a peasant boy with a disabled mother, constructs elaborate fantasy worlds to comfort when life becomes unbearable. The monotonous days of poverty and merciless bullying are interrupted when Gabriel unintentionally attracts the attention of a mysterious creature, a girl with swallow's wings.Navigating life with fellow outsider, the foreignerOrlando Khan, Gabriel abandons his small town for the grandeurs of Rome.But Gabriel is now a man and must choose where hebelongs: the imperfect reality, or the dream world that grows stronger and more seductive with each day...