On an empty farm, a donkey tied to a stake tells his life to his shadow as a forest fire approaches. Thus begins a tragicomic journey that explores the great classic texts about the donkey and the intense relationship between the animal and the human being. Live music and the purest theater accompany this nameless, six-thousand-year-old donkey on a journey through its adventures, misadventures and vicissitudes throughout classical Greece and Rome, the festive and carnivalesque Middle Ages, the Golden Age, the Enlightenment and Modernity. A story that fights against oblivion as the fire approaches.