In a world where man has abused the environment, depleted its resources, and ruined its beauty, many try to carve out an existence amidst inhospitable settings or take refuge from modern society in far away places. In this farsighted documentary-enquiry, Carlo Alberto Pinelli and Folco Quilici seek out these fugitives and their hermitages: a couple leave their prestigious professions and affluent life behind to raise their son in the New Mexico mountains; an alpinist from Orvieto lives secluded in a Japanese Zen monastery.