Stefano, um pintor, viaja até um vilarejo para restaurar uma pintura de São Sebastião sendo torturado. Depois de um tempo no vilarejo, Stefano descobre que algo não está certo. Ele descobre que o pintor do quadro era um insano que tentava capturar os últimos momentos da morte nas telas.
A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Padana has for many centuries been the subject of veneration. The baron, crippled and atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the holy venerated by her villagers. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.
