Andrea Viscomi is a late career footballer, from Rome, captain of the local football team, U.S.Collidoro, in southern Italy. During the imminent period of the 1990s World Cup, he meets Marcello, a boy who dreams of becoming a footballer and lives with his mother of Arbëreshë origin, in the popular neighborhood called “Aranceto". Their lives are intertwined. The coming-of-age novel of Marcello crosses the descending parable of Andrea's career, in the sign of a friendship necessary for both.