This is a story of roots of memories of lives lived far in the past. In 1927 the shepherd Giovann'Angelo who had lost his wife three years earlier died leaving seven children all very young to their fate. The youngest of them Minniu having lost the chance of being adopted by a wealthy family finds himself on a difficult path for a child that of a shepherd's servant. Minniu survives the Second World War unscathed but loses his father's brother John the Baptist. When he returns home he is still alone but soon a young woman called Rosa enters his life. The text is accompanied by drawings by Walter Venturi a cartoonist and illustrator of many works for Sergio Bonelli Editore.