Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

A bleak, introspective portrait of a brilliant mathematician's final days, consumed by disillusionment, mental anguish, and the approach of death.

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.