A documentary that explores the thoughts and philosophy of life of writer, sculptor and mountaineer Mauro Corona, through monologues, voiceovers, chats with friends and encounters with artists.
His rebellious youth, difficult relationship with his parents, drinking habit and the patient art of writing, his uncontrollable passion for rock climbing and mountain peaks, the melancholy of Erto, a small village in the Friuli mountains, not far from Vajont and its tragedy. What emerges from this documentary of patient observation and many inspired literary quotations read by Giancarlo Giannini is an unvarnished and unreserved portrait of a man and an artist. Biting but far from his persona as a television commentator, Mauro Corona also tells his story through encounters and chats with dear friends such as Piero Pelù, Erri De Luca and Davide Van De Sfroos, who visit him in his “den”.