Anna, a young Neapolitan film student, daughter of a repentant man who is in prison and a witness for justice, gets lost one summer evening during a rave party. For fear of being pursued by her father's enemies, whom she thinks she recognizes among the crowd, she hides in an unusual camp of nomadic acrobats who raise horses. With the idea of ​​not returning home for fear of being killed, Anna decides to stay with her "new friends" and follow them to France for the famous nomadic Camargue festival at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, beginning an adventurous and dangerous journey in search of her true identity. After the initial distrust, the Gypsies became family to Anna. Going from town to town with circus shows, Anna finds love, and discovers a new idea of ​​cinema, filming camp life and shows, so much so that the camp children decide to rename her Elvira, in honor of the first Italian director Elvira Notari.