75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement he returned to Puglia Italy where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild 7-year-old Carla is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...