Some sustain that Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed by a young hustler after an encounter that went wrong. Others sustain that he was eliminated by politics because he was considered a troublemaker.
Then there was a painter, a dear friend of his, who on the contrary was convinced that the writer from Friuli sacrificed himself to his desire to take part in a pondered and lucid death project, in which death would be seen as his last masterpiece, the final performance of an unprecedented artistic existence. After the death of the poet, he turned the elaboration and search for proof into his theory, an obsession that drove him through the rest of his days. The painter’s name was Giuseppe Zigaina and this short film is dedicated to him.
Il sogno di una cosa, in interviews with Alessandra Zigaina, daughter of Pasolini’s painter friend, Antonio Mancini, a repentant former exponent of the Banda della Magliana criminal gang and Marina Cicogna, producer of Pasolini’s film Medea, are intertwined with fictional parts, built to strictly follow the grammar of documentary films, by imaginary characters of varying calibre (an academic, a filmmaker and a psycho-analyst) who move within the dialectical fabric of Zigaina’s theory.