A young student prepares his degree thesis on Pasolini and Bologna by investigating the relationship of the great intellectual with the city of his childhood and his studies. Following in the footsteps left by Pasolini in Bologna, the protagonist will tell, for the first time in the form of a documentary and with a rock narrative rhythm, the emotional, visceral but also controversial bond of Pasolini with Bologna until his final days , also characterized by severe criticisms of the “consumerist and communist” city, a symbolic terrain of the adverse social and economic metamorphosis from paleo-industrial to neo-capitalist society. Bologna was also chosen by Pasolini as the set of important movies of his phimlography such as "Edipo Re", "Comizi d'amore" and above all of the scandalous last " Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma". Many characteristics and even inconsistencies of Pasolini are shared with the nature of his hometown: the multifaceted cultural fervor, the curiosity towards all possible directions of artistic thought, the inconsistency between the bourgeois soul and the progressive, conservative and avant-garde, reactionary and rebellious, catholic and hedonist. The protagonist will compare himself with his friends, in particular with a student of the Scuola dell'Opera di Bologna (to evoke the poet's friendship with Maria Callas), gradually discovering with amazement the power and topicality of Pasolini's prophetic and visionary thought, which clearly foreshadowed the ethical and political drifts of the country.