During his evolution, man progressively took over more and more space, therefore making the survival of wild animals much more challenging. It’s quite ordinary to hear stories of animals that, forced to abandon their territories, inevitably get closer to humans and inhabited areas, thus creating a delicate relationship that’s usually quite difficult to deal with, both directly and indirectly. This documentary intends to narrate the evolution of this very relationship, and also how some people actively try to rebuild a deep and respectful connection without altering nature’s cycle. Starting from Bernardino Ragni’s studies, as well as wild economy, the documentary presents both theory and practice: on the one hand we have Bernardino’s naturalistic collection at the Spoleto Museum, which introduces us to his studies, while on the other hand we have a group of men and women that engages daily in the rescue of wild animals that are victims of accidents, mainly caused by sudden, and often traumatic, encounters with humans. It all starts with a phone ring. A call that will inform all the rescue center operators of an injured animal awaiting rescue. Our protagonists are faced with days and nights spent waiting for one or more calls, ready to rescue their next animal, a wolf, a deer or a wild cat, in the hopes of intervening just in time to save its life. The hardest moment has yet to come, however, because once they manage to rescue and cure an animal, for the animal’s release it’s important that it does not get accustomed to humans and their cares. For this reason, operators are tasked with keeping their emotions at bay. For them, the strongest one of these is surely seeing the animal leave its cage to go back into the wild. A continuous game of glances will let us live every single emotion: the fear and confusion of a wounded animal on the side of the road, the stressful calls at the rescue center, the sorrow of arriving too late for a rescue, but also the joy of seeing an animal that takes its first uncertain steps outside of a cage during a release, only to then see it sprint back to the wild to find its lost freedom. The tale will end as it started: a phone ringing and a team ready to rescue yet another animal.