Documentary on two artists: Swiss-Italian architect Mario Botta, the man from the mountains, who built a chapel, and painter Enzo Cucchi, a man from the sea, who painted the frescoes for the chapel. Cucchi, who was part of the "Transavanguardia" movement, refused to follow the trends painting was taking in Italy in the seventies. At the same time, Mario Botta sought a form in architecture that would differ entirely from traditional tendencies.

     In the eighties, both met in Zurich and decided to produce something together. Ten years later, the dream was a reality: a chapel at the top of Mount Tamaro, in the south of Switzerland, twenty kilometers from Lugano. The great challenge was to build a chapel on a site overrun with tourism for the winter sports and make it a sacred place of refuge for meditation. Cucchi and Botta, both endowed with the capacity to perceive the deepest feelings one in the other, were able to blend their ideas and to make them image.

     There is much affinity between the primitivism of Cucchi's paintings and Botta's architecture. Botta's chapel brings to mind solid mountains, while Cucchi's frescoes depict his vision of the sea. The grandeur and harmony of the site are highlighted by music by Paul Giger, Swiss composer and violinist, who recorded a brief oratory, an archaic mass 17 minutes in length, in the chapel as yet in construction.