In four seasons, nature completes its cycle. A girl can become a woman. A belly can swell and become a creature. One can lose the path that led safely home, one can sail the seas to unknown lands. In four seasons one can die and be reborn. Vermiglio recounts the last year of the Second World War in a large family and how, with the arrival of a refugee soldier, by a paradox of fate it loses its peace at the very moment the world finds its own.