After having witnessed an organized crime murder in Sicily, Calogero is placed in the witness protection program. With a new identity, he is sent as far away as possible—to Sauris, a tiny village nestled in the northeastern Italian Alps. But snow and weird local customs, such as the Schuhplattler folk dancing, aren’t for him.

However, he is not the only one who has started a new life; in fact, the killer that he had reported was caught and is now an informer under the very same protection program; and thanks to a bureaucratic blunder, he ended up in the same village!