La ragazza ha volato tells the tale of Nadia, an awkward teenager who lives in Trieste, a border city caught between a raft of cultures, a place buffeted by a powerful wind, where the protagonist grows up afflicted by a loneliness which she will unexpectedly escape.

Sixteen-year-old Eva disappears from the Baron's manor shortly before her arranged wedding. The baron's henchmen, local law enforcement and other involved parties set out to find the girl who has chosen to set her own destiny in a time of great social imbalance.