On the night of the 1-2 November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on the beach at Ostia. The public opinion of half of Europe was excited and the event lead to the conviction of a young man, although the forensic evidence suggested that there was more than one culprit. A couple, she a criminologist and he a professor, undertake an investigation which is largely based on Pasolini's unfinished novel "Petrolio" about Mafia conspiracies and the suspicious death of Enrico Mattei, the father of the oil industry. Through a tour of the streets of Rome with these "ragazzi", José M.ª García López concocts a disturbing novel about Pasolini's life and demons: his literary works, his cinematography, his relations with artists and intellectuals of the era (Fellini, Sartre, Moravia, Elsa Morante...) and his firmly held and controversial political convictions.