Allen Ginsberg is reading his poetry in the Trianon movie theater, which is a historical red light theater in Naples. At the same time, the hardcore film, Tutta una vita, is being projected. A member of the audience in his sixties drops off to sleep. His dream leads us to the edge of madness. There are readings of beat generation poetry, pop music trailers, impossible cinematographic screen tests, and special remakes of cinema-images by the most important exponents of the old and new "Neapolitan poetic".

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

The curious adventure of Mr Rotpeter, a monkey turned into a man. Starting from Kafka's novel 'A Report to an Academy', Antonietta De Lillo's movie sets Mr Rotpeter's adventure in a nowadays Naples. Its peculiar storytelling flows between a faraway past and our recent reality. Mr Rotpeter's interest is strongly connected to human nature, society, politics, inner behaviours and emotions. Antonietta De Lillo's short movie will drag us into a very unique atmosphere, causing us a sense of disorientation and commotion.

Rome, Italy, June 1993. Antonietta De Lillo and Marcello Garofalo interview legendary Italian film director Lucio Fulci (1927-96).