23 maya Delii ispolnyaetsya 45 let. I v etot zhe den ee mat Amaliya pogibaet pri tainstvennyh obstoyatelstvah: dvoe malchikov nautro nahodyat ee kolyshuscheesya v vode telo. Deliya vynuzhdena ehat v Neapol — gorod, v udushayuschey atmosfere kotorogo proshla ee yunost i v kotoryy ona by hotela nikogda bolshe ne vozvraschatsya. Popytki ponyat, pri kakih obstoyatelstva pogibla ee mat, privodyat k tomu, chto Deliya sovershaet puteshestvie v samye otdalennye ugolki svoego podsoznaniya, pogruzhaetsya v sobstvennoe proshloe, gde hranitsya tselyy voroh tyazhelyh i boleznennyh vospominaniy. V rezultate pravda perepletaetsya s vymyslom, proshloe — s nastoyaschim, a figura materi raskryvaetsya pered Deliey s sovershenno neozhidannoy storony, pozvolyaya nayti otvet na vopros, kto zhe ona, Deliya, est na samom dele.
