This beautiful area in southern Sumatra was known by European adventurers in the nineteenth century as a "wild" land, the home of heroes who did not hesitate to behead, warriors that not even the Dutch colonial government could conquer. But Elio Modigliani, a young explorer from Italy, set foot there and went in and out of one village to another and came home intact. Accompanied by four hired hunters from Java, Modigliani not only succeeded in documenting various aspects of Nias life and culture, but also secretly brought home 26 human skulls which he donated to the National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography in Florence for their research. The big question is, why wasn't Modigliani killed, even though the other adventurers had to save themselves? Now Vanni Puccioni, the grandson of the museum director who exhibited the results of Modigliani's expedition, decided to follow in his footsteps and retrace the places the explorer had visited. The goal is one: to discover how Modigliani could survive among these warriors.