An international incident threatens to break out a war between major European powers that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

Maicol is an 8-year-old boy who lives in one of the houses of the popular lots of the Trullo in Rome with his father Valerio and his mother Giusy. As a gift for the school promotion Maicol receives the money to buy the jersey of his favorite team.

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.