Forced to travel to Italy to attend his mother’s funeral, Ernesto, an Italian who works in Tunisia, makes the journey with his assistant Amumen. The two are tied by a bond of intense and mutual curiosity. One night the bus they’re travelling on is attacked by bandits and Amumen is seriously wounded. As he’s dying, he tells Ernesto his story: Amumen is prince of a nomadic tribe and is in love with the beautiful Numa, who was killed by a witch-doctor’s curse. Crazy with grief, he was nursed back to sanity after Numa’s death by her mother, who made him vow to bring the girl back to life. In order to keep his promise, he must find the four fingers of her hand that were severed and thrown to the wind during a duel with the witchdoctor. Amumen dies in Enrico’s arms. Enrico decides to abandon his trip to Italy in order to look for the last remaining finger. Now an old man, Enrico finds Numa’s last finger and goes back to her mother. The elderly woman lives only for memories and for the few of Numa’s possessions left behind. She asks Ernesto if he’s found Numa’s last finger. “No,” he answers.