An earthquake hits the small community of Isolarotonda. There are no deaths or injuries, but everyone is forced to leave their homes and live together inside the Civil Protection tents. There are the petrol station attendants and their twenty-year-old daughter, the bricklayer and the hairdresser, the old sergeant with his wife, and that loner Pajama. And then there is Viola, a ten-year-old girl. Her mother, in her sixth month of pregnancy, was hospitalized and Viola was left alone with her father. Among the new arrivals, there is also Anna's family, a peer of hers. Only Pasquale is missing, who seems to have vanished into thin air. Under the tent, the adults make do as best they can amidst a thousand difficulties, but for Viola it's all new! She feels like she's on holiday, always outdoors, with nothing planned... Viola and Anna have become inseparable, inventing new games and exploring unknown worlds, discovering a nature full of mysteries and wonders. Any excuse is a good one for not going to bed and making new friends: they have never seen people so united and the community so alive. The two girls thus convince themselves that the earthquake is a "friend" that forces them to stay outside, together with the others. But the tremors are increasingly weaker. Soon we will return to normality, school will start again, the modular houses will arrive and everyone will isolate themselves again... And while the fairy tale ends, Viola clashes with the complexity of the adult world.