Angela de Matteo

One night, Death swoops in and takes the life of a child. His mother will do anything to recover him, even lose all she has.

Naples, 18th century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food, always upsetting Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius.