一个过气歌手回到他的家乡参加一场钻井大赛，企图赢得百万现金大奖。但参赛者们有所不知的是，这片干涸的土地下，竟潜藏着凶猛无比的致命巨兽，准备将他们一个个生吞活剥。

　　Dante has a beautiful relationship with his girlfriend Alice, but he has a bad one with Time: absorbed by the many commitments of his daily life, he always arrives late and has the impression that his life is flowing too quickly. It also happens on the first day of his forty years, when Dante shows up hours late at his birthday party. According to him, the solution seems at hand: if he works hard enough, maybe in a few years he will be able to buy some time.