After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.
