马克，一个11岁的男孩，陶醉IPAD，几近足不出户。但当他的祖母弃世，祖父搬来一起住后，马克的生存变得天崩地裂天翻地覆。他被强令加进户外运动。诺诺——他的祖父带他和邻人的一群意大利老夫子们学着打滚球。在运动、笑声和爱中，马克发了然人与人的接洽，并且在邻人的孩子们中构造起一支滚球队，决心应战祖父和他同伙们的球队。

在這個反烏托邦世界中，一種經由語言溝通散播的傳染病到處残虐，而唯一對此疾病免疫的語言學家，正遭到暴虐無道的組織追捕。

Marco, 11, is obsessed with his electronics and hardly leaves the house. But when his grandmother dies and his grandfather moves in, Marco's life is turned upside-down and he's forced to go play outside. "Nonno" introduces him to bocce - the world's oldest game - and to the neighborhood crew of old Italian me…