Don Gino Rigoldi, chaplain of the Istituto Penale Minorile Beccaria in Milan, decides to spend the summer in Sardinia together with the boys he has ideologically and concretely adopted. Ex-convicts, young people with clean records, immigrants with integration problems, all are "children" of Don Gino, with whom they spend their days at the beach cooking, playing cards, and telling the stories that brought them there.